Mary waited nine months for her miracle, but Israel waited centuries for the Messiah. God’s promises always come in His perfect timing—discover what Mary’s story teaches us about trusting and waiting faithfully.
In Luke chapter 2, we read a pretty interesting phrase. This says that after Mary and Joseph finished their journey, they went to Bethlehem to be taxed by their family. It says that when the time came, Mary gave birth to her son.
And now what really sticks out to me is that Mary was given a promise of a miracle, a miracle that had never happened to anybody else in the birth of a son through her, and she still had to wait for it to happen. In her case, she had to wait nine months for that miracle child to be born. But in Israel's case, they had been waiting for hundreds and hundreds of years for the Messiah to come.
Here's my point. God has promised us so many things. He has wonderful things in store, but we have to be patient to wait on his time.
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Originally published Monday, 23 December 2024.
