# Here I am

Advent devotional for Saturday, December 19, 2026. Day 21 of 27.

> 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. ([Luke 1:38](https://www.lumin.faith/read/luke/1#38), Lumin Translation)

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](https://www.lumin.faith/read/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](https://www.lumin.faith/read/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.

## Prayer

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.

## A question to carry

What might God be asking you to say yes to?

Read the whole chapter: [Luke 1](https://www.lumin.faith/read/luke/1)

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/advent/december-19