Advent Week 1 - Hope

Mary’s story is inspiring, but what do we do with it? Is the moral here to just be like Mary? I mean that is the temptation. Her faith and bravery in this text are beautiful and we should all hope to love and follow God like she does, but to make this text about Mary is to miss the point. Because Mary’s faith isn’t a picture of how awesome she is. Its a picture of how gracious God is. Even our ability to trust him in faith is a gift given to us by our gracious God.