She was a simple teenage girl; a girl who found herself pregnant and alone.
Just days earlier, she had been going about her chores happily consumed with thoughts about her upcoming marriage.
But now, everything had changed . . .
It was an angel that broke the news to her of God’s great love and desire to use her as the vessel for His Son to come to earth. She was amazed that God would consider her, a simple girl with no earthly status or wealth, to carry this precious child and to be His mother! She was astounded, surprised and a little bit scared all at once. She couldn’t really comprehend how it would be possible but she trusted her Lord and humbly agreed to His plan.
But now, in the stillness of the night, as her hand felt to the softness of her belly she wondered . . . was it all just a figment of her imagination. Could it really be true? Was she pregnant even now as she lay there in her bed? How could she really know that this was true?
She abruptly sat up in bed! What had the angel said about her Aunt Elizabeth? Oh yes, she was pregnant too! She would go and see her – that was the only way to be sure that this wasn’t all a crazy dream.
She arose early the next morning, packed her bags and made the long trek to their home.
Her thoughts spun round and round in her head as she walked the dusty path. What would Joseph do once he found out she was pregnant? What would her parents say? Why hadn’t the angel told them about this? Why was she the only one who knew?
She knew that if it was true, her life would never be the same. From now on, she would be changed; there was no going back, no altering of the plan.
When she stepped into the home of Zechariah and Elizabeth, she knew deep down in her heart that what the angel said wasn’t a figment of her imagination or a dream, it was true because there before her was Elizabeth, old and wrinkled and very pregnant indeed, exclaiming her joy at being with the mother of her Lord. It was true! It was true! She was to be the mother of the long awaited Messiah. Oh what joy!
A baby, her BABY would change EVERYTHING!
“And while they were there, the time came for her baby to be born. She gave birth to her first child, a son. She wrapped him snugly in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no lodging available for them.” Luke 2:6-7
By Kristi Huseby
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