Sometimes I think we picture God as just a bigger and stronger version of us. No wonder we have difficulty believing, trusting, praying, and expecting miracles. The examples, during advent, of examining the scriptures concerning the incarnation point to what the meaning of “overshadowed” might entail. For Mary the incarnation excluded a man and the workings limited to a man. It is not weird. It can’t be dirty. If God could create Adam from dirt, and Eve from his side, then using a woman’s body for half the DNA is the physical part of a spiritual miracle. In our lives, when the power of God overshadows us, the life of Jesus is born within us. Luke 1:35 reads, “And the angel answered her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy – the Son of God'”. That is how a miracle is done. At the will of God, by the power of God, and for God’s purpose to draw all men unto Him. Merry Christmas. This is how it began.
