I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Contemporary news bulletins are filled with plane crashes, severe weather warnings, gunshots in schools, celebrities dying, or bombs falling. In others words, bad news sells.
Good news is boring.
But there was nothing boring or ordinary about the way God decided to enter this world. It is truly surprising and newsworthy that God chose a poor Galilean girl to become the mother of Jesus Christ and the most significant woman in all of scripture. Mary s story is that God uses the small to lead the large, the weak to teach the strong, and the ordinary to carry out the extraordinary. God kept his promises to Israel, from the time of Abraham to the time of Mary, and He keeps His promises today. The greatest sign of His promise-keeping was the birth of His son, Jesus Christ.