--MARY and the GRACE of GOD ~~

-"And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favour with God."
--(Luke 1:30)~

-THIS announcement by the angel Gabriel to the virgin Mary, that she had been chosen as the mother of the coming Savior, contains the first mention in the New Testament of the Greek word for grace (charis). Mary was chosen, not for anything she had done, but because she had "found grace."

But there is an even greater dimension to the grace of God. When we do "find" grace, it is actually because God in His infinitely prescious grace has found us and revealed to us the Saviour of our souls. Just as God found Moses in the desert and found Paul on the road to Damascus, then saved and called them to His service, so He finds us, and then we also find His saving grace.

Mary's discovery of God's grace in salvation, through the coming of the "seed of the woman" into the world, is revealed in her Magnificat: "My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour" (Luke 1:46-47). This could well have also been the testimony of Noah long ago, and it surely should be the testimony of each of us who has found grace today.~
--ICR/HMM / Your Grace Finds Me / Matt Redman
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