When the angel announced Gabriel to Mary that she would give birth to Jesus, the Bible says that Mary was “confused and disturbed” by what Gabriel had said to her (Luke 1:29). Gabriel saw her reaction and said she shouldn’t be afraid because she had found a favor with God.
Certainly, Mary’s Hart broke in her chest. But instead of being scared and focused on herself, Mary put her confidence in the Lord and said: “I am the servant of the Lord. May everything you said about me come true” (verse 38).
She could not see what was for us and did not have all the answers. But she said yes to God.
Gabriel called Mary ‘the favorite woman’ (Luke 1:28), and the biblical significance is that she was demonstrated with special honor. Of all the women on earth, she received the privilege of wearing God’s Son (and she would receive him as her savior, just like everyone else who believes), but Gabriel did not say she was perfect or sinless. “Because everyone has sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23 NKJV). “Everything” in that verse means everything. It doesn’t exclude anyone. Mary was a sinner, just like you and I his sinners, but God had chosen her.
The Bible does not say why she was chosen except that she was a virgin; The other reasons are only known to God only. But we know these 8 things about Mary from Scripture:
- We know she was a woman of faith because she believed that the Lord would do what he said.
- We know she praised the Lord and enlarges his name.
- We know she had awe for the Lord and recognized his mercy.
- We know that she recognized God’s power to spread the pride and to eliminate the modest.
- We know she was hungry for the good things of God.
- We know that she felt God’s love and grace for Israel because she knew that God fulfills His promises.
- We know she knew God’s Word, because almost all the words from her prayer in Luke 1: 46-55 come from Scripture.
- And we know she was obedient because she put her yes on the table when she said to Gabriel: “I am the servant of the Lord. May everything you said about me come true” (Luke 1:38).
For a common and ordinary girl who lives in a normal, ordinary village where nothing never changed, the birth of God’s Son would ricochet around the world, and nothing would ever be the same again.
Mary was favored by God. Throughout her life she may have wondered why she was chosen and would certainly have remembered words of Scripture, in particular the prophet Isaiah, who said: “The Lord himself will give you the sign. Look! The virgin will become a child pregnant! She will give birth to a son and will call him immanuel (which means’ God is’ (Isaia ‘(Isaia’ ” (Isaia ” ‘(Isaia’ ” ‘(Isaia’ ” ‘(Isaia’ ” ‘ (Isaia ‘(Isaia’ (Isaia ‘(Isaia’ (Isaia ‘(Isaia’ (Isaia ‘(Isaia is’) “(Isaiah 7:14) of God will never fail” (Luke 1:37). Indeed, God’s Word had never failed.
Mary honored her word and provided a loving house for God’s only Son. She laughed and cried when she lifted Jesus through his childhood and cried in fear when Romans stopped him on a cross. She was the only one who had been present with Jesus from the cradle to the cross. And through everything the Lord was with her. Just as he’s with you.
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