Blessed is She Who Believes!
Luke 1:45 Blessed is she who has believed the Lord would fulfill His promises to her! This is by far my favorite scripture and one of my favorite stories in the Bible. Mary, young and innocent, has gone to visit her much older cousin Elizabeth. Both women are pregnant through miraculous circumstances. Mary, a virgin, is carrying Jesus in her womb. And Elizabeth, past the child-bearing age had become pregnant after an angel visited her husband and proclaimed it would be so. She was carrying John the Baptist. When Mary walks into the room where Elizabeth is resting the baby in her womb leaps in response the the presence of his Savior (in Mary’s womb) and instantly Elizabeth and her unborn child are filled with the Holy Spirit! And Elizabeth proclaims that Mary is a blessed woman because she has trusted the Lord to fulfill His promises to her. This passage is so powerful and exciting! Pregnancy offers a sign of hope for the future to many people. Pregnancy itself is a promise of to...