When we read Luke 1 about the angel 's response to young Mary when she protested that she could NOT be pregnant because she was a virgin, the meaning and source of change is clear: "
29 Mary was greatly troubled ... and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”
34 “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”
35 The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
The Holy Spirit will do it!
36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail.”
The Holy Spirit has already done a great miracle with your cousin!
So, the same Holy Spirit that filled you and me and that had raised Jesus from the dead has brought about a miracle of a virgin birth. This was the Incarnation! God and Man came together in one person.
The Creator of the universe was now on earth in a physical body. Amazing. Wonderful. Emmanuel!
John 1---The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.What is next? What can we do to really enjoy that reality?
Gary Sweeten
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