Called Her Blessed

Luke 1:45New International Version (NIV)

45 Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”

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            I love this verse! I have thought about writing an entry with this verse for a long time and thought I did. I looked back, though, and I didn't have an entry with it in it. There was a reason I thought about writing it and the reason was because I heard it last month. This is a popular verse around Christmas time but why only hear and use it then. We needed to be reminded of this more and more everyday. If anything, I would want this verse to be, if not one of my verses for the new year, THE VERSE for this new year. 

           It is a part of the story of Mary. She went on to do as God told her to do because she trusted that He would blessed her in the long run. Guess what? God did blessed her because she had His Son and that Son saved her life in the long run. God told her what to do and go on with things and as long as she did that, things would be okay and in His hands. 

           For me, this verse should be part of the Proverbs 31 women. Believing what the Lord can do and that He would fulfilled His promises to her, is an important trait to have. As women, we need to believe what the Lord has promised us but not only us. We have to believe that the Lord would fulfill His promises to our children, our friends, our husbands, and so on. As the caring and nurturing type, we want the Lord to fulfill their or anyone else's promises before our own. 

          Yet sometimes that could be really bad, especially if you are a really caring person like I am. You could care for someone so much that it actually puts a hold on your own life. You worry about that person. You wonder about them nonstop. Every little thing bother you about them. You want to be with them everyday and know what they are doing nonstop but know you can't. That is where this verse fits in. When you believe that the Lord will fulfill promises, you can stop worrying and doing all these things. You know that they are in God's hands and He will take care of them better then you ever could.

            When you start believing that God will fulfill not only their promises but yours too, you have the freedom to feel blessed. You will realize that you are being blessed and you will enjoy that feeling once you hand everything over to God. It is a big burden lifted of of your shoulders when you know that God will fulfill things and promises. It is then that you know you can trust God with your most important person (people) or thing/s. Then you have to realize that God might have a different way to fulfill the promises but yet in His ways, you could be more blessed then if you went your own way. 

             This verse is a great reminder of what God could do if we just trust and believe in Him. Not only will He fulfill the promises He has given to us but at the same time He will also bless us with better things then we could ever think of. That is why we need to leave things in the Hands of God but I know that is easier said then done. It is something that we have to get up and pray about everyday and then again at bedtime. Here is a prayer that I made up on the spot and it kind of turns the verse around into a prayer. 

Prayer:

        "Daddy, I do believe that You will fulfill the promises that You have given to me and the people I deeply care about. Please bless me and the people that those promises are for while fulfilling them."

In Jesus' name,

Amen