LORD’S DAY, JANUARY 7
Luke 1:26-33
Isaiah 7:14

“Behold, a virgin shall conceive,
and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”

THE MOST MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION

Six months after the announcement of the conception of John the Baptist, God sent Gabriel to Nazareth to a woman named Mary. The mission was to announce that she would conceive the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost. God proclaimed it according to His perfect plan. In His sovereignty, He had foreordained the best time for His only begotten Son to be born on this earth. “But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law” (Gal 4:4).

The great news was announced to Mary, a virgin in Nazareth. She was a humble woman who received great tidings. She would conceive and give birth to God’s beloved Son. The Father highly favoured her not because of her outward beauty nor for any talent she possessed but out of God’s own good pleasure and choosing. She would conceive in her womb, “… and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end” (Luke 1:31-33).

Announced as the Son of the Highest, Jesus was not an ordinary child. Even before His conception, it was made known that He was the Son of God. He will sit on the throne of David His father and His reign shall be forever and His kingdom shall have no end. “And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS” (Rev 19:16).

Mary’s conception of Jesus defies the laws of biology. Mary, a virgin, conceived, thus fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy, “a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel” (Isa 7:14). This supernatural conception is the only one ever in man’s history! Jesus is indeed God with us! Immanuel!

THOUGHT: Do I believe without doubt that Jesus is 100% God?
PRAYER: Father, may I fully trust in Thy Son’s divine nature.