Joy Through Humility (Luke 1:26-56)
- Marnie Hammar
- Dec 20, 2024
- 1 min read
Published at She Reads Truth.

We love a good “rags to riches” story, don’t we? Especially when God tells it in His upside-down kind of way. Throughout the Old Testament, we see God’s plan for our redemption thread through unlikely people, including the stories of lowly women like Tamar, Rahab, and Ruth. They all lead us to this part of the Advent story in Nazareth.
In today’s passage, we read of how, because of God’s favor, our far-from-royal Mary would birth a king—the King—who will reign forever. Outlandish, right? This girl of low standing and little means, a promised bride who was no longer a child but not yet a woman, was chosen to mother a king? As this news took shape in her womb, her humble condition moved her to the outer edges of her community.
But God was more interested in who she wasn’t.
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