Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Luke 1:26-33
by: Leota Stevens.
I don’t know about you, but I would be terrified by the message that the angel delivered to Mary. Mary was an engaged woman of good reputation, a virgin… and she was soon to be pregnant? Think of the scandal, the wagging tongues in her close-knit community. God’s plan for Mary required her to step out of her comfort zone of the familiar and step into a relationship of faith. The Creator of Life, whose spoken word brought about order from chaos at the inception of the world, now speaks through an angel to announce the conception of the Living Word as the savior of the world.