Sister... Carry Your God 2

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A sublime wonder walked upon the earth.

God looked upon it and was pleased. The Holy Spirit watched it with delight. The angels meditated upon it with awe.

What was this wonder?

That a woman carried God in her womb.
Pure, simple, holy and graceful Mary. The vessel through whom the ultimate salvation and redemption was born into the world. A woman so zealous to fulfill her role in the Grand Redemption Plan that when the angel Gabriel came to her with the news that Christ would be born through her, she completely yielded her entire being to the agenda of God.

“I am the Lord’s handmaiden,” she said.
“Be it unto me according to your word.”

In her simple words is revealed the posture of any woman that would carry God in her generation. By acknowledging herself as God's handmaiden, Mary was in effect saying that she did not belong to herself. Rather, she belonged to God, to do as He pleased with her. This sentence reveals a woman who was dead to herself and alive to God. She lived her life for His pleasure. God was free to do as He pleased with her because she belonged wholly and irrevocably to Him.

Mary was submitted and surrendered to God’s will for her life as conveyed by the angel. Was the journey ahead of her to be smooth and flower-filled? Nay. Scripture reveals that a sword would pierce her heart because of this blessed Son that she would bring forth. His sufferings would be her sufferings, his pain would be her pain, his death would be a death of a part of her. Blessed she is among all women, but also most sorrowful because of the pains and afflictions that her Son endured while on earth.

Yet despite the dangers and the heavy crosses that accompanied being the Messiah’s mother, Mary still echoed the words:
“Be it unto me according to your word.”
Many beautiful lessons can be learned from her who was a paragon of virtue, a woman most blessed above all women. But for this post, we will focus on only two. Are you a woman who will carry her God? Then you must possess these two attributes.

First:
The humility of knowing and living as God's handmaiden.

Second:
Complete surrender to the will of God, even when the path ahead is uncertain, painful, or costly.

Daughter, you cannot carry a God to whom you are not fully yielded and surrendered. Neither can you faithfully advance the agenda of Him to whom you are not fully loyal.
Do you still belong to yourself?
Living and doing as you please without any thought of your Master? Do you cast off the bridles of restraint that He casts upon you? 
Then you are not yet ready to carry your God. For our God does not ride on divided loyalties.
The Spirit of the Lord says:
“Choose this day which God you will carry... God, or gods.”

Shalom. 

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