Yesterday was interesting - screaming people in the streets are not dangerous.

Lk1,21-38

Zacharias is coming out of the Temple.

Everybody knew, that he had a revelation.

Then he is going home and his wife becomes pregnant. She is hiding it for 5month.

In the 6month the Angel is going to Nazareth to visit Maria - the fiancee of Josef.

The conversation is amazing:

1. You will be with child and give birth to a son

2. You are to give him the name Jesus.

3. He will be great

4. Will be called the Son of the Most High

5. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David

6. and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever

7. his kingdom will never end.

Marias reaction to what the Angel said:

34 How will this be, Mary asked the angel, since I am a virgin?

I do not know if it is the same reaction like Zacharias - he said after he heard the Angel:

How can I be sure of this? I am an old man and my wife is well on in years.

How will this be <> How can i be sure

What is the difference?

God saw a different heart - 

Because he reacts to Maria differently, then he reacts to Zacharias. He sais:

1. The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.

2. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.

3. Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be barren is in her sixth month.

4. For nothing is impossible with God.

That is the answer of the Angel

I like this: FOR NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD

And now Maria answers a second time:

I am the Lord's servant - May it be to me as you have said.

Then the Angel left

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The room was dark again - ore the sun was still shining - ore it was still night and Maria could no longer sleep and went out in front of the house.

Maria will be pregnant before she married

In this days a real challenge

Why she is not stoned? Nobody knows. Did everyone believe Marias story about the holly spirit?

To become pregnant as a miracle - how convincing

The Bible does not even talk about the struggles this young Lady had to go through

It is silent

We only see the heart of Maria

I am the Lord's servant

A logical thought of Maria could be like this:

I will give birth to a son although I've never slept with a man

So the law is teaching, that they need to stone me, because i can not prove, that i never had sex.

But

God promised me, that i will give birth to a son.

So therefor I will survive

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Logical thoughts do not help me always to overcome strong fear

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Also, when she gave birth - nobody promised Maria to survive this time after

If she would - Maria will be for the rest of the life she had, the women pregnant before she was married

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i know, everybody knows this thoughts

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For God nothing is impossible

The Holy Spirit is in me

Is this good enough for me today to life according Gods will?

Good enough for me to be the servant of God today?