Devotional 12-4-19

Read Psalm 72:1-7, 18-19

Paul as well as Clinton Marsh and just about everybody else tends to forget that it took a “yes” from Mary before God could “send forth his Son”—-and if there is any truth to that “when the time had fully come,” it is that Mary’s time had come when she went into labor at the end of her pregnancy: that’s when the time had fully come—-that is when Jesus’s time to be born had fully come!

As for “Had Jesus come to a different people in a different place at a different time…” I don’t think you can juggle his place in history—or  Mary’s—that way; and since Jesus was born of Mary, you’d have to get her as well as Jesus into “a different people in a different place at a different time”—-which isn’t humanly or Godly, possible.

Of course, it is possible for God to have a Son of a woman “in a different people in a different place at a different time”—but that son wouldn’t be Jesus, for Jesus was Mary’s son as well as God’s—-which lottsa people tend to forget at times.

For all I know—for all anybody knows—God may have “proposed” (or propositioned?)…through the ages but, as far as we know, Mary was the first one to say an unqualified “yes”…

“When the time had fully come,”… and the “Time had fully come” only because the woman Mary said “Yes.”
—From The Gospel According to Abbie Jane Wells by Abbie Jane Wells

Let us pray,
Dear Lord, we are so fortunate that Mary said “yes” to many years ago, to become Jesus’s Mother. Mary is a true blessing for us to remember what she did for God’s people, she made it possible for The Christ Child, the Prince of Peace to come to earth to save us all from our sins.

We must thank you Lord for asking Her to follow your instructions for her life. Help us to follow your instructions for our life so we may be strong and brave to follow your calling during this advent season. We must remember that Jesus is the Reason for the Season.  Amen

Melanie Herr