Friday, March 25
Luke 1: 26-38
Jordan can be seen on the bottom left
Almost every Christmas season, the church holds a pageant.
Throughout my childhood, I’ve been in many of them. In one of the first scenes
in almost every pageant, Gabriel appears, telling Mary that she is to have a
child.
Six-year-old me couldn’t comprehend how amazing it was that Mary had a child as a virgin. But, revisiting the story now that I’m older, I’m thinking WHAT!? I don’t know about Mary, but I’d be panicking. Luke only says that she was “greatly troubled.” Overall, she seems pretty accepting about the kid. Mary trusts the angel and trusts God.
I wish I had that sort of trust in God and that I could be that accepting if an angel came into my house and told me crazy news like that. But if I’m honest, I don’t trust God as much as I should. When what God wants of me is different than what I want, I don’t go along with what he says as quickly as Mary did. My hope for future me is that I’ll become more accepting of what God has to say, no matter how crazy his words may seem.
Reflection by Jordan Tan
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