“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. For no word from God will ever fail.”

“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.” Then the angel left her.

For no word from God will ever fail.

Easy to say if you’re an angel. Harder to believe if you’re a human.

Our everyday experience just seems to contradict it so often:

I will never leave you or forsake you God says, but often we feel alone and as though we have no one to help us.

God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus it says, but there are many times when we are lacking what even feels like the basics.

Yet, the angel Gabriel says clearly that ‘no word from God will ever fail.’

Easy to say if you’re an angel.

But also easy to say if you’re Mary:

“I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May your word to me be fulfilled.”

What about you? Where are you on belief scale?

Are you still uncertain about the promises God has made, citing your current experience as evidence that these promises will go unfulfilled?

I know the feeling. There is a lot that happens that leads to anxiety as opposed to faith (or is it just me?).

Or are you like Mary, who straight away responds with faith that everything will happen just as God says it will, because he’s promised it.

God says it. God does it. Mary knew it. What about you?

Yours standing on the promises,

Alison