Do you remember your redemption stories?
And behold, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son, and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren. Luke 1:36
Lord God,
Thank you for this wonderful story of redemption.
Even as the angel Gabriel revealed to Mary
an incomprehensible promise:
she would conceive and bear a son,
the Son of God, Jesus our Savior,
who would reign on the throne forever (Luke 1:31-33),
he shares a story of redemption to show her,
“For nothing will be impossible with God” (Luke 1:37).
Father, even today, as we rush
to finish our giving and our buying and our wrapping,
or as we grieve the loss of the days
when we made such preparations
press pause in our hearts.
Help us to sit before you
to remember our own stories of redemption,
of the times you came through with the money
when we didn’t know how we would get through the month,
of the ways you healed a relationship
that we thought was irrevocably broken,
of the baby you brought into our lives
after we had long given up hope of having a family,
of how you burst through suffocating darkness
with the light and hope of Jesus.
As we remember,
may we hope and pray again
that you would do the impossible
in this broken and hurting world.
In the name of our Redeemer, Jesus, we pray.
Amen.
Read Luke 1:31-38.
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