What Sort of Greeting is That?

Today I would like to consider Mary and her willingness, obedience to her call.

Like wow! She is being told by an Angel that she will carry God's Son in the flesh in her body. It's an amazing call but it comes with a huge cost and danger to her well being. In that day, to be pregnant and not married was huge. When the Angel entered he said such a strange thing, imagine if he had said that to you? ...

Luke 1: (New King James Version)
28 And having come in, the angel said to her,
“Rejoice, highly favoured one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”
29 But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was.

Mary's reaction to his strange request of her in Luke 1:30-33 is ….

38 Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.


Elizabeth her cousin is also miraculously pregnant with John the Baptist what an awesome time in history this is. Don't forget though they are under Roman occupation and living through incredible hardships.

Elizabeth just knows that Mary is carrying “The LORD”...

42 Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! 43 But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

I love reading the first 2 chapters of Luke and seeing the heart of these two women and to remember what was said to to Zachariah, about his coming son John the Baptist, when he met the Angel ….

17 He will also go before Him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” 

That is our call also to make ready a people prepared for the Lord, Jesus told us that in Matthew

18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.


Notice Jesus says 'make disciples' not 'make christians'?

So you see – the World Really Does Need Your Footprints – Love Jen