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Sons To Glory
A detailed study of Mary’s life will reveal many godly characteristics,
but one that shines through the most is her faith in believing God’s
promise to her. She simply trusted that God was able to bring to pass
in her what was impossible to happen in the natural. She believed God
and knew Him intimately, thus revealing her spiritual maturity or
Sonship. Listen how Mary responded to the Lord:
“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will
overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will
be called the Son of God… Then Mary said, “Behold the maidservant
of the Lord! Let it be to me according to your word.” (Luke 1:35,38)
Believing this promise did not come without suffering and sorrow and
reproach. I am sure that Mary labored spiritually as much as she did
naturally. How many of Mary’s family and friends do you think
actually believed along with her that her pregnancy was really from the
Holy Spirit??? In that time period, if you were pregnant out of wedlock
it was bad news! You were a social outcast. Also, it was a great step
of faith for Joseph to take Mary as his wife. In the natural, he was
admitting that he was the father of the child out of wedlock. Mary and
Joseph were like Moses who “esteemed the reproach of Christ greater
riches than the treasures in Egypt” (Heb. 11:26), and they were also
entrusted with the secrets of the Lord.
Also, John 16 explains how the first disciples were used as “mothers”
to birth the life of Christ to their generation. He told them, “…it is to
your advantage that I go away” (vs. 7) so that you can give birth!
Jesus compares them to a woman in labor who is sorrowful during her
labor, but rejoices when new life is birthed and forgets her initial
anguish. “Most assuredly, I say to you that you (disciples) will weep
and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but
your sorrow will be turned into joy. A woman, when she is in labor,
has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given
birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a
human being has been born into the world. Therefore you now have
sorrow; but I will see you again and your heart will rejoice, and your
joy no one will take from you.” (vs. 20-22)
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