The Christmas Miracle

“Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant. May everything you have said about me come true.” And then the angel left her.”

Luke 1:38

I have a Christmas book on my shelf titled, “The Mary Miracle” that portrays Mary as a model for all believers. Mary’s miracle will stand alone throughout the ages because of its significance on the history of the world. She was chosen by God to give birth to Jesus, the promised Messiah who was born to save us from our sins. The process of how God performed Mary’s miracle is much the same for us and is worth our time to revisit it at Christmas. The steps to Mary’s miracle go like this, “The promise of God was to Mary, that the promise of God could grow in Mary, That the promise of God would pass through Mary, so the promise of God could change the world around Mary.

What was required of Mary to receive her Christmas miracle is no different for me and you. Our Bible is filled with literally thousands of promises of God, and yet for many of those promises to be appropriated in our lives we must learn to respond like Mary who said, “Let it be to me according to Your Word.” The promise of God was to Mary to become the mother of the Christ child but it still required her acceptance of God’s promise for it to grow in her, to take root as it were. Like most of God’s gifts and promises that we say “yes”, there eventually comes a time after they have grown that God will desire to do something through us with it. Just like the promise of God to Mary, eventually it had to pass through her in order to change the world around her. God’s ultimate goal remains the same, and that is to change the world around us by that which He has birthed in us, namely Christ in you, the hope of glory! Think about it, every time we share Jesus with others, there is the potential for another Mary miracle of sorts, for Christ to be born in them as they are born again by God’s Spirit.  

As any mother can attest, giving birth is never easy. For Mary, she had to live with the ridicule of being unmarried when she was found to be with child. And if being scorned wasn’t bad enough she had to ride some 90 miles on a donkey to reach the place her baby would be born. The point is, there will always be challenges in realizing God’s miracle’s, in giving birth to the dream God has for you. Every time we share Jesus birth and all that His life and death and resurrection offer, another Mary miracle is made possible as Jesus passes through us to change the world around us when others hear the message of hope and salvation and respond, “Let it be to me according to Your Word.”  

I LOVE YOU!