"God Turns Things Upside Down"
Monday, 21 December 2015 / Luke 1:38 Miryam said, “I am the servant of Adonai; may it happen to me as you have said.” Then the angel left her.
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Throughout the Bible, God seems to turn things upside down. What we humans consider right and proper becomes completely the opposite when God has a plan… God calls Noah to build a boat on dry land; Moses, a Hebrew baby who should have been killed at birth, instead grows up in the home of Pharaoh as a prince of Egypt; David is merely a teenaged shepherd when God identifies him as the next king of Israel. The examples go on and on!
Elizabeth is well beyond child bearing age when she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a son, John the Baptizer. Mary is a young girl, engaged to Joseph, and visited by an angel who tells her she has found favor with God and will bear God’s own son.
Could any of these things be more amazing? God has a plan for each of these people, and God has a plan for each of us. Our own lives may not be as dramatic as the stories in the Bible, but God’s plan and God’s call are important—and not to be ignored!
Listen for the still, small voice of God calling you to serve. May you respond as Mary did, saying: “I am the Lord’s servant, may it be to me as you have said.”
Prayer: Lord, I am your servant. Open my ears to hear and respond to your call on my life, even if it seems impossible. Amen.[Doris Hedrick, Natural Bridge, Virginia]
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