June 12, 2019
Luke 1:26-38 New Life Version (NLV)
Our Scripture this week is drawing our attention to the work of the Holy Spirit. It is the Spirit who brings us into the realm of God when our minds, wills, and emotions are actually willing to stop fighting the reality of Truth. We fight to understand everything with our natural senses and God’s mystery of salvation is only received and revealed by the Holy Spirit. How powerful is the Holy Spirit?
Well, in our passage today, the Spirit comes upon Mary and the power of the Most High covers her and she becomes pregnant with Messiah; no man involved. Pretty powerful, right? The kind of news the angel delivered from God to Mary cannot be receive in the natural, because it makes no sense to us. But, it is nonetheless Truth about the power of God over the natural realm. We must surrender our limited human understanding in order to receive his unlimited divine wisdom and provision.