Message: Luke 1:26-38 “The
Glory of Christmas: Mary”
Advent
begins this week and so we begin a new Advent message series. This first
message will focus on a truth we can learn from the life of Mary. Mary’s plans changed
that day the angel of the Lord encountered her with a new set of plans leading
to the glory of that first Christmas in a Bethlehem stable. She could tarry and
worry, or she could trust and wait on the Lord over the next nine months to
fulfill His plans and carry her into motherhood. Mary chose to trust and wait.
She chose to let God carry her through upcoming days of uncertainty, questions
from society about her character, hardships on her husband who also would need
some time to process this new change of plans.
Our
God knows the plans He has for all of us. As crazy as those plans may seem at
times, they are plans for our welfare and not for our evil. They are plans to
give us hope and a future. And that future includes a capacity to experience
and enjoy the glory of Christmas.
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