The Gift of Belief

We've bounced around the gifts of obedience and surrender when watching Mary as she responded to the message from the angel Gabriel. Let's consider that alongside obedience and surrender is belief or faith. This means that Mary embraced supernatural outcomes. A quote from the Teacher's Commentary (Richards, L. and Richards, L. O, 1987) summarizes it this way, "How wonderful that our God is not restricted to the usual, or bound by the merely natural. Our God is a God of the unusual, and the sooner we see God as He is, the more quickly our lives will be transformed." When Mary enters Elizabeth's doorway, she is praised by her cousin for her faith. When we consider our lives especially the places of struggle, do we rest in God's presence and activity, leaving room for Him to work in a unusual ways? Take a few minutes to offer to God the gift of belief by acknowledging that He is working in ways you cannot see.