Mary’s Angel

Scripture Texts: Luke 1:26-38

The first thing we notice in our text is something we addressed last week.

The Bible is unapologetically, unashamedly, openly supernatural.  The Bible talks about things and assumes things modern, materialistic mankind finds quaint or foolish.  This offends our American individualistic, independent way of thinking.  This offends our intellectual, scientific, academic pride, this is not the sort of stuff we allow to be taught in our schools.  People who believe this stuff are superstitious, gullible and naïve.

This is the stuff of myth, fantasy, sci-fi, make believe.  This is Peter Pan and Never neverland.  This is Alice and Wonderland.  We are just drifting through space on a big rock only to die and become worm food.

The fundamental truth concerning Christmas and the incarnation and Christianity is we live in an open universe where there are encounters with the real, invisible realm of God and heaven.  And we live on a planet visited by God where there is more going on around us than meets the eye.

Let there be absolutely no question in your mind, no hint of doubt, another world has broken into our world, and it dramatically changes everything.  We cannot just go on with business as usual.

I am thinking of you young people remembering when I was your age.  I remember being young, completely self-absorbed, thinking the world revolved around me, completely selfish in my decisions and choices, wanting what I want, doing what I want.  Thinking I am not accountable to anyone for anything.

I believed in God, I believed in Jesus and in heaven and hell and angels.  I believed all that but I lived like a practical atheist.  In other words, I didn’t really think about what the impact of the supernatural had on my day to day life.

We are not our own, we are not alone, God is as real and present and active in your life as He was in that teenager living in Nazareth.

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