We often do not realize that we are favored in this life. We look around us, start comparing ourselves to the Jones, and feel like we are being left behind. Like we don't have enough. Like we aren't enough.
If anyone should feel like they aren't enough it is Mary. Mary was a young woman in a day and age when people who are favored in society were men. Men of power. Men of influence. She also finds status by her husband's good name, and she is not yet married. Yet it is to the lowly of the lowly, a poor woman from a poor unknown village, that God comes and speaks truth into her life, saying that she will carry the savior, the Messiah.
For Mary, however, this sigh of favor, this promise, wasn't an immediate blessing. She knew that it would cause issues in her family, with her upcoming engagement. She knew that she would become the talk of the town, an unwed woman saying that she was carrying God's child. Yet, she trusted God anyway.
Sometimes the favor God shows us doesn't feel like a blessing at the time. Sometimes it seems like it is more trouble than it is worth. Yet, God does shine God's face upon us, even if we do not fully recognize it at the time.
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