So tonight, I've given up. I put all my books and papers and study sheets down, and I picked up my Bible. Psalms...Romans... Luke. I just started Luke, and I was reading about Mary.
Mary wasn't planning on Gabriel to drop in like that. She was engaged. She was a virgin! Can you imagine what people were going to think of her? Yet the end of the story shocked me. Mary's reaction was not that of anger or doubt, but of complete acceptance.
Make me think about my own circumstances... I'm fighting. It feels like I'm never happy in where I'm at. I can blame it on whoever and whatever, but there are too many signs telling me that God is working a plan through all the chaos that I call my life.
vs. 37 says "For nothing is impossible with God."
vs. 38 has Mary's response, "I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May it be to me as you have said."
WOW! Give me faith like hers. Not even a question. Not even a "why me?" Full acceptance of God's will for her life, whether it placed her in an uncomfortable situation or not. Mary knew that her Lord was Sovereign, and that He knew all things. She knew that God works all things together for the GOOD of those who love Him. Mary knew that God loved her more than she could even fathom.
I want a faith like Mary's. Trust -- without borders. I want to fully accept that plan that God has for my life, whether I know what that is or not right now. I want to be ready. So when God reveals it to me, I will take that step of faith and follow His lead, wherever it takes me.
Lord, all I am is yours.
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