Saying Yes! - Week Two : 26 Sep 2019 - The Well

As I have prayed over Luke 1 with a desire to see afresh what it means that God has given us His Son, God first took me back 20 years and asked me to see that His best gifts to me have been the ones that have revealed my heart to me and have given me the opportunity to say “yes” to being continually changed, to being transformed. 

In sending His Son to born of Mary, God gave Mary, and you and me through her obedience, THE perfect gift. He gave us exactly what we needed to see the nature of our hearts.

But we must not miss what it meant for Mary to accept this gift, to say “yes.” For Mary, receiving the gift of God’s Son would have brought tremendous uncertainty; it would have devastated all her future plans.

Why did Mary say yes to disgrace, yes to destitution, yes to tremendous difficulty? Because as Gabriel described the gift God was giving to her, Mary knew this gift would take away her ultimate disgrace (of sin), rescue her from eternal destruction.

Mary said “Yes” to God, completely yielded as a slave, because she was being given something she knew she desperately needed but thought impossible-to be made perfect in the sight of God.

To say “yes” to God, we, like Mary, need to see clearly what THE perfect gift God has given to us and what this gift reveals about our hearts. Beginning with the sending….