CONTINUE from yesterday Luke 1:26-38 DO NOT FEAR GOD'S PROVIDENCE

IOI CHRISTIAN MORNING MEAL

... CONTINUE from yesterday

Luke 1:26-38 DO NOT FEAR GOD'S PROVIDENCE

The "Fear Not" of human impossibility!

(Providence = The care, guardianship, and control exercised by a deity; divine direction. In other words, it is the overruling watch care and involvement of God in the lives of His people.)

A. V. 26-27 The Calmness Of Mary's Life -

When Gabriel appears to Mary, she is probably about 14 or 15 years old. She has probably grown up dreaming the same romantic dreams that girls have dreamed since the dawning of time. Dreams of marriage, home and family. She is even engaged to a man named Joseph and about to be married.

According to the text, she has maintained her sexual purity, as well as her spiritual purity. She is living close to the Lord and is living a good life before the Lord. Mary apparently has it all sewed up.

A bright future is awaiting her, she has everything for which to live.

I really like it when my life goes just as I have planned. There are times when we sail the calm seas of life, but those days often seem fleeting and few when compared to the days when trials stalk us like savage beasts.

B. V. 28-37 The Challenge To Mary's Life - When Gabriel makes His announcement to Mary, her life is immediately turned upside down. Mary is called upon to bear shame, reproach and humiliation for the glory of God. Her's is to be the greatest honor ever afforded to woman, but at the same time it carried with it a tremendous social stigma. (Very much unlike our day!)

When our lives do not go as we have planned it is easy to fear that which is unknown. Often, God will allow things to happen in your life and life and mine that are hard to bear and hard to understand, yet the Lord sends them our way so that we might grow in Him and come to know Him in a better way. When these times arise, it is easy to question the Lord and His judgment. It is always easy to question but it is far nobler to comply with the Lord. You need to ask yourself now, are you complying with the lords will in your situation?

You see, one inescapable part of being a Christian is the area of cross bearing, Matt. 16:24. No one said such a life was easy, but the end results are worth the trials of this life!

The secret to surviving the dreadful times is to learn to trust completely in the Lord. But whichever way and whatever happen to you learn to lean on God that all shall be well in Jesus name

LET US PRAY
DEAR LORD JESUS REMEMBER OUR HUMBLENESS AND SATISFY US WITH YOUR MIRACLE AS WE ENESTLY HOPE ON THEE IN JESUS NAME

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