Thank you to Mark R for this week’s MWB
Last week we thinking about Mary’s prayer of praise, the Magnificat.
We were thinking about how Mary said: “My spirit rejoices in God my Saviour”
Like a magnifying glass, Mary’s words enlarged the wonder of the fact that the Lord had chosen her, an unknown teenager from an unknown town, to be the one who would bear the Saviour of the world!
Mary magnifies; she enlarges the splendour of the Lord in not only in sending a Saviour, but in choosing the weak and the insignificant to change the world.
In Isaiah 55:8 we read these words: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD
And in 1 Corinthians 1:18 we read: “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God”
Not only did the Lord choose the ‘weakness of the cross’ to display His Mighty saving power, He also chose those who are weakest to share it with a world that revels in its ‘strength’
In 1 Corinthians 1:27, Paul tells us: “But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong”
That’s Mary; that’s you and me if we’re ‘rejoicing in God our Saviour’
However small and insignificant we may feel, God is magnified in us, as we go about our daily lives…
That conversation, that act of kindness, that word of encouragement…God is at work in the small things.
We spread a little light in the darkness. We magnify the greatness of our Saviour.
As Paul says in his 2nd letter to the Corinthians in chapter 12:9: “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness”
Mary was humbled by the realisation that God was at work in her: “He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble”