The angel Gabriel proclaimed Mary, the mother of our
Lord, to be the favored one and the Scriptures tell us, "She was greatly
troubled at the saying and tried to discern what sort of greeting this might
be."
That seems like an
odd reaction. One would understand her being frightened at seeing an angel. But
what is one to make of her being frightened of being called favored?
Was her fear because
Mary understood from the Scriptures that all whom God favored were also those
who went through great trials and through great sorrow?
Who was more favored
than King David? Yet read his piteous laments in the Psalms. And Joseph, the
glorious, honored and weeping son of Jacob; And Moses, friend of God, burdened
with the wandering multitude of malcontents.
"Woman, behold
your son," said the Lord Jesus. Mary beheld her son: beaten, scorned, spat
upon and high and lifted up as the Almighty Conqueror of Sin and Death.
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