Advent · Day 21 · Saturday, December 19
Here I am
Mary said, “Here I am, the Lord’s servant. May it be done to me as you have said.” Then the angel departed from her.
Gabriel tells a young woman in Nazareth she will have a son, the Son of the Most High. Mary asks one question: how can this be? The angel answers that no word from God will be powerless (Luke 1:37).
Then she says, “Here I am, the Lord’s servant.” She does not know what it will cost her: rumors, a hard trip, a sword through her own soul (Luke 2:35).
Mary says yes before she has the whole plan. Most of us want the plan first. Advent asks for her kind of trust: to say yes to God today with what we know.
Pray
Lord, here I am. I don’t know the whole plan, but I want to say yes to you as Mary did. Let it be as you say. Amen.
Carry it today
What might God be asking you to say yes to?