Be Still And Know

Luke 1:38 Mary responded, “I am the Lord’s servant. May everything you have said about me come true.” And then the angel left her. We know very little about Mary. When Matthew and Luke provided a family tree for Jesus they did so through Joseph’s descendants. The Bible makes no mention of Mary’s family line or even of the name of her parents. Other sources tell us that they were called Anne and Joachim, but we cannot be sure. In Luke’s account we find her in Nazareth and so that may well have been her home town. We presume that she was probably a late teenager when the angel Gabriel came to her with the astonishing news that she would miraculously become the mother of the Son of God. But hazy as our knowledge may be of Mary, we are given a remarkable picture of someone who trusted God completely. Having heard the news, she simply identified herself as the Lord’s servant and accepted the truth of this amazing revelation. The title ‘servant’ is often used of people who follow God. In the Old Testament we fi