Mary’s Song: A Christmas Day Message
12-25-2022 By Kelly Durant
Christmas seems to always arrive with so much resistance! The “prince of the air”, Satan, seems to always blow in a storm, or always brings the focus away from Jesus by whatever means possible in the news. Christmas often comes with discouragement, family issues, greediness, sickness/pandemics, and breakdowns, loneliness, but still Satan cannot stop us from worshipping Jesus!
In the past weeks I mentioned how we all should strive to be pure and Holy like Mary, but do you know in what way she was holy? We know she was willing to let God do with her anything He chose but look what it cost her emotionally! We know she followed in the footsteps of her Judah-ian predecessors from her family’s bloodline, but from her own words, what was she like?
Do not let the words of traditional prayers made up by other past church members be the only thing you know about her, pray to know God’s spirit in her. In her own words, what did she reveal? Why do people not read her words more often? Let’s read below and learn how she thought, how she was inspired.
46 And Mary said: “My soul [i]magnifies the Lord,47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
Let’s start there, do you praise the Lord and lift the Lord up in your day-to-day activities? Do you get happy in your soul like she does in your spirit, and let the Lord be your joy, your everything? Her passion was God her savior! And how are you?
48 For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant;
What is a low state? It means she was not anyone important to the world, nor she wanted to be. She was a humble person. She called her own self a maid-servant of the Lord, one who serves God. Who here can say that? …Lord I am yours to serve and nothing else matters in life?
“For behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed”.
Who gets blessed by God? Those that are willing to do anything God wants! The blessings of the Lord are for those who love and obey Him, but of course Mary was very blessed to be the mother of Jesus, that was special! She would not have wanted to be worshipped though. Not even the angels in heaven want to be worshipped! She is honored but it was her son, not her, that came to be the savior of the world, to be born, to live healing and teaching, and then to die as a sacrifice for our atonement.
49 For He who is mighty has done great things for me,
And holy is His name. Every week I ask for testimonies. Do you tell of the great things God has done in your life? God has done something great for all of us and we must tell it, so others praise God’s name! We must always be reminded that God is Holy, which means pure, clean, and righteous. He wants those qualities in our lives reflected back to Him.
50 And His mercy is on those who fear Him
From generation to generation.
This reveals that if you fear, or obey God, you gain His mercy! (In this context, through Jesus!) We know full well that God will punish every person for not doing right, for resisting His Holy Spirit of conviction. With mercy, however, you have a chance of correcting yourself with a total change of lifestyle, with the guidance of His Holy Spirit, repenting from your pride, wrong deeds, and lack of love for God and others. His mercy is for all the future generations of whosesoever will, meaning for everyone, for all generations; Jesus is the door for a clean slate. KD
51 He has shown strength with His arm;
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Often God’s word speaks of how the “arm of the flesh” will fail us, how we in our own strength are nothing compared to God. But Jesus was different. His flesh, or human body made up of the mix of the Divine with the human, had a power no one had ever seen, that of doing miracles, of casting out demons, of being superior in all regards, a strength firm like a rock. His strength was also in His wisdom to respond wisely to not allow the bullying hypocrites and arrogant leaders out smart Him. He exposed their evil concocted schemes. He came to bring truth, salvation, and to tear down the proud.
52 He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
And exalted the lowly. Jesus chose common people to be His disciples, those who were low nobodies to preach the gospel. By empowering the humble, ordinary people like you and me, he has bypassed the arrogant ones in high places. People in power don’t care to be humble disciples of Jesus as they already follow Satan. They are usually corrupted and perverted condemned souls that are psychopaths having no love or compassion for God or anyone! His return will be the ultimate de-throning event! Jesus will set up a kingdom that will reign forever and ever!
53 He has filled the hungry with good things,
And the rich He has sent away empty. The people who seek Jesus with a hungry empty soul find Him and He fills them up with His comforting Holy Spirit. Those that want to learn about God get filled through Him. But the people full of themselves, have nothing for God, you and me, or nobody. These are the ones that remain shallow, ignorant, arrogant, and ugly, ugly to be rejected by God because they are full of themselves.
54 He has helped His servant Israel,
In remembrance of His mercy,
Jesus first preached to the Jews, so He did help Israel as many did believe in Him, while the leader Jews, wanting power and wealth, wanting the filth of this world, rejected Him. He spoke to them about how the merciful will obtain mercy, and all who believe may receive His mercy and love. But when His ministry began, how did He show you obtain mercy? By repentance, by washing away, or burning away your sins so that forgiveness and mercy from God could take place.
55 As He spoke to our fathers,
To Abraham and to his seed forever.” This part implies that Jesus responded to the desire of all the past forefathers, that the Messiah would come and then His seed would be established forever. And Abraham had many children, not just from Sarah, but from Hagar as well. In other words, His salvation came for all the tribes and nations of the world. And everyone born throughout the ages are descendants from the seed of man and Jesus saves all who choose Him forever. His seed (His descendants) are the mega millions of followers who join Him on earth and remain with Him in heaven forever!
Who are Abraham’s children? Those who have faith in God! And with Jesus you must have faith for Him to work in your life! Without faith, without Jesus, without God’s mercy, we will not be with God in the future! A child of God must be one who is full of faith following Jesus all the way for all his/her life!
Mary’s song is a prayer! A confirmation of what Jesus would bring, of what standards we should heave, a fulfilment of prophecy, a new start for those of faith, plus it’s a warning that the proud would be humbled, and that His salvation by His birth and death on the cross would bring on a mercy that would last for all generations! Amen!
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