Faith Like Mary: Small Town Girl
"In the sixth month, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary." (Luke 1:26-27)
Of all the people who hang out in the little nativity set we drag out every year at this time, we know the most about Mary. (Aside from the baby, of course.) We're going to spend the next week or so talking about her faith, courage, and unplanned pregnancy.
Mary is like you in that she was probably a teenager. She's not like you (just guessing) in that she was engaged to be married to a much older guy. She's also not like you -- or me -- in that the angel Gabriel came and talked to her. Face to face. He said her name.
Mary was a small town girl who apparently grew up in a family that took faith in God seriously. She wasn't sinless or perfect or a superhero, but she knew the Scripture and she was ready to be used by God for whatever mission He might have for her. Because she believed Him.
Think: Do you expect God to use teenagers to do big things for Him in the world? Do you expect Him to use small town people? Do you expect Him to expect you to be available?
Pray: Ask God to help you not to take yourself off the list of the people you expect Him to use for hard and important things.
Do: Read about Gabriel's first baby announcement in Luke 1:1-25 and notice this week how that conversation with an old guy named Zechariah compares with the one He had with a teen girl named Mary.
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