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When the Son of God entered the world, he didn’t simply appear one day in a blaze of glory, bringing immediate salvation. In God’s perfect plan, his Son was "born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons" (Galatians 4:4-5).
The woman’s name was Mary, destined by God to bring his Son into the world, destined to be the vessel of divine life and the one through whom the eternal God would enter the world to redeem it.
Imagine how important the character of the mother of the Son of God must be. She was chosen to sum up—in her heart and in her deeds—Israel’s centuries-old longing for God’s promises to be fulfilled. She was destined to give birth to, nurture, and train the One who would save all people from sin! She was the one who would become the model for all Christians throughout the centuries, teaching by her example and helping to bring about by her intercession the purity of heart and singleness of mind that God desires in all his children.
As we consider Mary’s journey of…
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