MORNING SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 3/6/2026
9:46 AM
My
Worship Time Focus: “Mary’s Supplication”
Bible
Reading & Meditation Reference: Luke
1:34
Message of the verse: “Mary said to the angel, “How can this
be, since I am a virgin?”
This morning’s SD will be a rather
short one as we will just look at this verse this morning.
Mary heard this astonishing announcement
from the angel Gabriel, the angel of God that she was to be the mother of the
long-awaited Messiah (1:30-33), and this left Mary shaken and confused (cf. vs
29).
(1:30-33)
“30 And the angel said to her, "Do not be
afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. 31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and
bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of
the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father
David, 33 and he will reign over the
house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.’”
“29 But she was greatly troubled at the saying,
and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might be.”
Mary was
overwhelmed by the implications of his announcement, and wondering how it would
be practically implemented, Mary asked Gabriel, “How can this be, since I am
a virgin?” Mary knew that no woman
had ever given birth to a child without being impregnated by a man, and so she
thought what the angel said was inconceivable.
MacArthur adds “But Mary’s question did not reflect doubt or incredulity
(unlike Zachariahs’s [1:18-20]).; she believed what the angel told her, but did
not understand how it could happen.”
MacArthur concludes this very short
section by writing: “It must be remembered that miracles were extremely rare in
history, as the record of the Old Testament shows. By Mary’s day there had been no divine
revelation or miracles for four centuries.
No one had seen an angel during that time either, until Gabriel’s
appearance to Zacharias which Mary probably did not know about since the angel
had to tell her about Elizabeth’s pregnancy [v. 36]) a few months earlier Mary
realized that the angel did not mean that she would become pregnant naturally,
after she consummated her marriage to Joseph.
She understood that he was saying she would become pregnant while she
was still a virgin; her question was not an expression of doubt, but a request
for an explanation of the means for that impossibility.”
Now as I look ahead in this chapter,
and into chapter two after Jesus was born, and when His mother and father took Him
to be circumcised we will see that there were two people who knew that it would
be time for the Messiah to be born. Now
the reason that they had a good idea of when the Messiah was to be born was
from the great prophecy found in the ninth chapter of Daniel. I like to explain this prophecy by looking at
a giant stopwatch which began at a certain time and ended when Jesus rode into
Jerusalem on a donkey found in the 19th chapter of Luke. The prophecy is for 490 years and it is broken
up into different parts and at the end of the first part. “25 Know therefore and understand that from the
going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an
anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two
weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled
time.” Seven weeks means 49
years and the sixty-two means 434 years for a total of 483 years. So to sum it up after the 49 years there
would be nothing coming to Israel generated by a prophet as all was
silent. After the 481 years were done,
which happened when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a colt, a young donkey it
would stop again awaiting the time of the beginning of the tribulation period
for the antichrist to begin this last seven years of this prophecy. At the end of that time, as seen in
Revelation 19 the Lord Jesus Christ will return with His saints to stop the battle
of Armageddon.
Spiritual
Meaning for My life Today: Just as the birth of Jesus Christ
happened like it was prophesied, so will the rapture, which ends the church
age, along with the second coming will all happen just as the Bible tells us it
will. I can take comfort in this, awaiting
the rapture of the church to take me and all other saints to the clouds where
the Lord will be there to take us all into heaven.
My
Steps of Faith for Today: I want to make sure that as I write these
Spiritual Diaries that the truth is given out to all of those around the world
who read them that the Holy Spirit will use them for the glory of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
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