Wednesday, December 9, 2009

The Greatest Miracle

“For with God nothing will be impossible” (Luke 1:37).

For many Christians this phrase has become a familiar chant. It comes up easily in conversations about troubled times, but how many of us recall that it was Mary who first heard those words?

God would create in the Virgin Mary’s womb the Christ Child. Elizabeth had become pregnant after menopause. But the greatest impossibility was about to come to pass, the rescue of God’s people from the bondage of sin (1 John 1:9, 2:1, 3:4).

This is the greatest miracle