January 27, 2009 - The Persons Used By God

Meditation on Luke 1

Luke, the physician told us in the introduction that he wrote this Gospel in an orderly record after careful investigating everything he wrote from the beginning as well as obtaining eye witnesses' account. He told the truth. We should trust everything he said.

This lengthy chapter contains tremendous truth with powerful lessons for us. Each story itself should be studied very carefully. God will speak to you as you take time to meditate it because they are God's inspired Words.

Today let us approach this passage with just one focus: What were the qualities of those persons whom God used to accomplish His work in this world?

In the life of Zechariah, the priest, the Scriptures says that he was upright in the sight of God, observing all the Lord's commandments and regulations blamelessly. (v. 6)  Though his faith was lacking, God still used him but taught him a lesson by making him speechless till his son, John the Baptist was born. (v. 20, 64)

In the case of Mary, the mother of Jesus, she was obedient and submissive to God's will even though she knew that she would not be accepted by the standard of the world and be misunderstood by the country folks around her that she would carry a child before she joined with her husband, Joseph. She consented to the angel who announced to her the birth of the Savior through her, "I am the Lord's servant. May it be to me as you have said." (v. 38 NIV)

Then for John the Baptist, God told his father that John would never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he would be filled with the Holy Spirit even from birth. (v. 15)  John the Baptist would be the prophet of the Most High, for he would go before the Lord to prepare the way for Him. (v. 76)

The qualities from these three individuals in this chapter are worthy of our reverent consideration. Apply them to your life; you will be God's powerful instrument.