HAIL MARY (Part 3)
Greetings Brethren,
Today we’re continuing
from our study of the attributes that enabled Mary, the biological mother of
Jesus to fulfil her ministry excellently.
Yesterday we saw that
the faith in Mary was a strong factor in why God would choose her over others.
Well, here’s another one:
#3-SHE WAS GROUNDED
IN THE SCRIPTURES
If Mary hadn’t gone to
visit Elizabeth we probably wouldn’t have known the kind of person she was in
her heart. Take a while to read her response
to Elizabeth’s salutation in (Luke 1:46-55); it’s quite revealing. Her response
was one long monologue of praise, prophecy, history and psalmody.
Those are not the
words of a teenage girl who only reads Psalm 23 and “the Lord’s Prayer’ twice a
day. Recall that this was a spontaneous response; those things were already in
her mind all these while. It shows that though she was surprised that the Angel
Gabriel appeared to HER (and not to anyone else), she wasn’t surprised at WHAT
he was talking about in Lk 1:30-33. She knew exactly who the ‘MESSIAH’ was and
what His mission was to be. She and God were on the same page on that one.
She didn’t reply
Gabriel, “Oh sir, I know you’re from God and all, and I really don’t want to be
rude or anything, but... WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
No! She had been
thinking about this all the while; and when she said, “be it unto me according
to your word” she knew exactly what that implied.
Brethren, the
vocabulary that God uses to speak to us is His written word. There is no
prophecy, no ‘word of knowledge’, no ‘rhema’ or ‘revelation’, etc. that will
come to us that would be alien to what is ALREADY in the Bible. So, if we’re
not scripturally literate, His words to our spirit will either be
unintelligible or will be limited in the amount of information they carries.
Her feat is all the
more remarkable when we remind ourselves that this was a teenage girl talking
here.
Mary was a woman of
faith, she was also a woman of the word.
AMEN
We’ll continue on these
thoughts tomorrow.
More Blessings Await
you today, you’ll not miss them in Jesus Name.
GREG ELKAN
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