Luke 1:35 The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most-High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
Luke 1:26-35 In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary. The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.” Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most-High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most-High will overshadow you. So, the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.
This verse of scripture was a message from the Angel Gabriel to the mother of our Lord and Savior. Some hold Mary up in such high esteem that people worship her. We should not pray to Mary, the mother of the Lord Jesus; what we should do is praise God for her. When she was giving birth, every Jewish mother dreamed that her child might be the promised Messiah. Although Mary was troubled, the Angel assured her that she had found favor in God’s eyes and that the son she would soon deliver would be called Jesus. The sweetest name among all the world, the name that energizes, restores, and rejuvenates the fallen spirit of a humble sinner.
Before the coming of the promised Messiah, the Holy Spirit would come upon those that God had anointed for a special mission. The veil came down in the temple at the last breath of our Lord and Savior on this earth (Mark 15:37-39), the Holy Spirit was to indwell in the hearts and souls of all believers and followers of Christ Jesus. This visit must have been a comforting blessing to Mary when the Angel told her the Holy Spirit of God would come upon her, and she would be “overshadowed” by the “Most High.”
God led the Roman Government to require all people to return to the home of their ancestors to be counted and pay their taxes. So, Joseph and Mary made the long trip from Galilee to Bethlehem, the city of their ancestors. This visit was so that the prophecies that Jesus would be born of a virgin and in Bethlehem would come to pass (Micah 5:2; Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 9:6-7). The long-awaited promised Messiah, which God first promised in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:15), was about to come into the world to save all sinners, of which we all are (Romans 3:10; 3:23), of our sins.
The message of God to Mary was that her child would sit on the throne of David, and His kingdom would last forever. This Christmas season instead of focusing on family get-togethers, Christmas trees and holly bushes, gifts of shiny worldly trinkets, and worldly holiday cheer, let us focus on the most incredible gift (Romans 6:23b) that we can ever know, the gift of eternal life, in Christ Jesus, the one that loves us as no one can even imagine.
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