Maidservants of the Lord

Dearest Friends,

I want to share with you today the wisdom and life of my favorite woman in the Bible. Her name is Mary. She happens to be the mother of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Mary's life has always intrigued me. She was so young when she became pregnant. She was only 14 scholars say when she was impregnated by the Holy Spirit. If this is the case she was only 47 when she watched her first born son beaten beyond recognition and hung on a cross to die. I wonder those 33 years of His life what she thought about. Did she wake every day with the thought of His being the Son of God? Did she sit around staring at Him, thinking about the fact that just as human as He was, He was as equally God. I think that would blow my mind. And we know according to scripture that she believed in His power. She is recorded as the first to ever ask Jesus to perform a miracle when she asked Him to turn water into wine. Mary knew the God of the impossible.

When she was just a young virgin girl, Mary was approached by an angel who told her she would conceive in her womb a son whose name was to be called Jesus and that her conception would occur by the Holy Spirit as the power of the Highest overshadowed her. And her son would be the Son of God. And this is what Mary said, "may it be to me according to your word." WOW!

That's why she's my favorite. She didn't say a number of things like; do I have to?, are you sure you want me?, do you know what you're doing?, is this for real?, ARE YOU CRAZY? I think I would have been asking some questions. Not Mary. She called herself the maidservant of the Lord and she accepted her assignment. Accepted an assignment knowing that her family would not understand, her betrothed husband may want to divorce her, her friends would talk behind her back, and the others who knew her would call her names and reject her from their very presence. She accepted the assignment despite the emotional pain, the rejection, the fear, and the uncertain future. I wonder when she accepted her assignment, did she know how alone she was going to feel?

Friends, God still gives us assignments. He may not be telling us to physically bear His son, but He is asking us to spiritually bear His son.

He gives us the assignment to forgive all those who hurt us even when they aren't sorry. To forgive wholly with our hearts.
He gives us the assignment to love our enemies, to pray for them, and to do GOOD to them. OUCH.
He gives us the assignment to reject our selfish ambitions and take up His will for our lives.
For us wives He gives us the assignment to love and submit ourselves to our husbands despite their spiritual maturity.
For you husbands? He gives you the assignment to love your wife as Christ loved the church despite whether or not she's meeting your needs.
He gives us the assignment to share His love with those around us, those in need, and those who are hurting.

When the Lord speaks His Word to you, do you have the same attitude as Mary? Do you consider yourself a maidservant of the Lord, ready to fulfill His assignment in your life? We don't understand why He asks some of the things He asks from us, but I know He knows what's best for me. Will I be a whole fulfilled person if I choose to forgive, to love and to do His will? Then I choose to do so. I choose to be a maidservant of the Lord. May it be to me according to His Word. May it be to you according to His Word.

Be blessed my sweet dear friends. Be maidservants (and menservants) of the Lord!