Giving to God Like Mary: A Life of Consecration
Giving is the theme of this season we live in this morning, even the stores around us have picked up that theme. But as we open to the Book of Luke, rather than gift-giving, we are going to study an even greater gift: giving our lives, bodies, and minds to God as Mary did.
This Christmas season we are going to look at five lives that were focused upon Christ at His birth. Each is a beautiful portrait of giving to Him what they had. Each of them has been immortalized by God for what they did.
Think of that. Five individuals did something that only God really saw, and only a few others barely witnessed as they watched. But what those five did has become a part of what will last forever and ever.
This morning each of us is also offered the opportunity each day to do things only God really sees, and what few if any others get to witness, but when we give ourselves in acts of obedient offerings to God, we become a part of something that will last forever and ever.
One of the elements of Heaven is that God never forgets what individuals offered to Him. God collects our gifts and never loses them, gets rid of them, or forgets them. What we offer to God, like these small events in these lives that surrounded Christ’s birth, lasts forever and forever.
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