How, indeed? That’s an honest and truthful question. How can this be? For that matter another woman whom throughout her entire life had been labeled, “barren,” (Luke 1:36) found herself just three months away for delivering her son, John, who would be called, the Baptist. How, indeed?
Have you ever said to God, in light of His outrageous promises, “How can this be?” I hope you have asked this of God, and I hope you never stop asking it. I hope God can be in each of us in such a way that our faith just keeps being stretched and stretched until the only answer that makes sense to us is, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you” (Luke 1:35)
Mary had never been with a man so she couldn’t get pregnant, but the Holy Spirit came upon her.
Elizabeth, the barren, couldn’t get pregnant, but the Holy Spirit came upon her.
Because of an evil Herod, Jesus had no chance of getting out of Bethlehem alive, but the Holy Spirit was upon Him.
The cross killed Jesus and the dream for the future died on a despicable hill called, “The skull,” but the Holy Spirit was upon that event and upon Jesus.
Death spoke loudly in the life of Jesus but on a Sunday morning He came out of the tomb alive because the Holy Spirit was upon Him.
The Church had no chance of making it out of the first century, but the Holy Spirit was upon the Church, and twenty centuries later the Church is present, keeping the story of Jesus Christ alive.
How can these things be? That’s a great question, and the only answer is, because NOTHING WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GOD” (Luke 1:37). When the Holy Spirit is upon a people nothing will be impossible with God.
Case closed, or maybe marvelously reopened.
Case closed, or maybe marvelously reopened.
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