Tags: Mary

• preparation in the present…

  ‘…when His mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph…’ is a phrase from the Christmas Lessons that still rumbles around with me. So how about this…? Technically speaking, Mary wasn’t the mother of Jesus yet, but so much more is happening here (as is often the case in scripture.) Mary’s future was so certain she could rightly be introduced this way even before her future had been introduced to her!! Why? Because God completes what He initiates every time. You [...]