Believing {Luke 1}
12:30 AMSeptember
25, 2018
What
if we really believed? I know, I started
my last post with this same question, but I’ll be very honest with you all, God
has been working at cleaning out my heart this summer, and I have recently
realized that my empty heart could only be filled by believing Him.
So
let me ask you, what if we truly believed God is uniquely present and active in
the circumstance of each of our lives?
What if we truly believed there would be fulfillment of the word spoken? What if instead of allowing our circumstances
to determine what we believe, we allowed our believing to reinterpret the
circumstances?
That
would be “blessed believing.” The
Elizabeth and Mary type of believing – the kind of believing that gives birth
to new life.
We
see here in Luke 1, two pregnant women, neither of whom, according to their
circumstances, should be or could be pregnant.
One is too old. One is too young. One is barren. One is a virgin. Yet BOTH are pregnant!
Neither
allowed the circumstances of their lives to define who they were or limit who
they might become. Believing for them is
not so much what they see, but HOW they see.
Each one believed more than the
circumstances of her life.
Elizabeth
believed she was more than just a barren, childless old woman. Mary refused to accept that she was a no-one,
another scandalous woman, but believed that she was the mother of the Holy One.
(v. 35)
Both
women saw, hidden within their particular situation, a deeper meaning to a new
life. They believed through the
circumstances of their lives. Each one
trusted the God of the impossible was somehow in the circumstances, reshaping,
transforming and fulfilling her very existence.
God was at work within these two women changing them – not their
circumstances.
God
doesn’t bless people according to their age, sex, or station in life. He blesses them according to His own good
purposes. Grace is free and God has
chosen to pour it out abundantly across all of humanity.
Faith
is the right and pleasing response to believing God’s promises. And as with grace, it isn’t reserved for the
spiritual elite.
I recently received Lauren Daigle's new CD, and this song resonates with me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIaT8Jl2zpI
And if you have time, listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sufQX7NSX2k
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