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When the angel Gabriel visited Mary and told her that she was to become the mother of the long- promised Messiah, she stated the obvious, that she was a virgin, but she didn’t ask for proof. Gabriel, though gave her a sign. Mary’s aged and barren relative, Elizabeth, had by the promise of God, become pregnant. Gabriel said that Elizabeth was in her sixth month, for nothing was impossible with God. Mary simply believed what was told her.

Mary rushes off to visit Elizabeth and when she hears Mary’s voice calling, the baby in her womb (John the Baptizer) leaped for joy at the sound of Mary’s voice. Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke God’s Word! 400 years of silence from heaven was broken. “Blessed is she who believed that what God said would take place.”

Here, two hopeless cases as far as normal conception were concerned: a barren woman probably in her 80’s and an unmarried virgin…humbled and in dire straits. But they were yielded to God’s will, His Word and His way no matter how costly or scary.

As we wait for the Lord’s Second Coming, we need to trust Him, to take Him at His Word even when it is costly and scary for the world is still upside-down and right-side-up living is not what is promoted by this world’s system. Believe like Mary. Rejoice like Elizabeth. Nothing is impossible with God.



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