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Motherhood Exemplified!

I was sitting quietly at home one day when suddenly a bright light shone into my room. And I heard a voice say, “Greetings, O favored one, the Lord is with you!”

“What? Who? Who are you? Who’s the favored one?” I thought to myself while trying to figure out whether or not I was dreaming…

It was an angel! I had heard of angels appearing to people in the Torah. This angel said his name was Gabriel. Gabriel? Gabriel was the angel who appeared to our prophet Daniel! Oh how could I now be seeing him? And why would he appear to a poor young girl like me?

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Three times…

“You will deny me three times.”

These words have been ringing in my ears ever since that precious night we were gathered together with our Lord. Jesus had just done the most amazing act of service the world had ever heard of. He got up and washed our feet! Then He told us again that He would leave us. We were afraid. I was afraid. And as usual I impulsively told the Lord that I would lay down my life for Him. I thought I would. I thought I could.

Then we went out and the Lord turned Himself in to the soldiers which such authority like I’ve never seen. It was so powerful that the soldiers fell backwards when He spoke those poignant words,“I am.” They didn’t realize that He was declaring that He was the great I AM, Yahweh, whom the Jews who sent to capture Him, claimed they worship.

Well, the soldiers got up again and I couldn’t bear to see them capture my Lord. So, being impulsive again, I drew my sword and cut off one of the soldier’s ears. I think his name was Malchus. But my Lord rebuked me and healed the man’s ear!

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When the Logos says His word…

Everyone in town was talking about this Jesus of Nazareth. I heard that He had fed over 5,000 people miraculously with just five loaves of bread and two fish. He also healed a man who was an invalid for 38 years. He spoke to Samaritans and touched and healed those whom the Pharisees would never even come close to. He seemed like such a good person. But I didn’t dare come close to Him. I knew I lived a life of sin. I wished I could get out of this trap. I felt so desperate for love that I moved from one relationship to the next in search of fulfillment. But after every relationship, I felt used and utterly worthless. None of these men loved me, they just used me to satisfy their desires. But enough about me.

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We fed the 5,000

Most of us are familiar with the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. But allow me to zoom in to the young boy with the five loaves and two fish.

Jesus could have easily prayed for food from heaven. He is the same God who fed the Israelites manna from heaven for years. But He didn’t do that.

Instead He chose to involve a young boy in His orchestration of a miracle. Here was a boy with his lunch who was probably hanging out close enough to Jesus and the disciples that the disciples noticed he had food. Imagine a crowd of 5,000 men, their wives, and children, so we’re talking about at least 15,000 individuals! How did the disciples spot this boy among a crowd of this size? Could this little boy have stayed close because he was especially curious about this Jesus that all the adults were talking about? I wonder.

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“He told me all that I ever did.”

Well in the garden

Allow me to take you back some 2,000 years ago. Jesus on His way to Galilee stops by a town in Samaria called Sychar. Any Jew or Samaritan living back then knew that Jews and Samaritans were not friends, actually, there was quite a bit of hostility between them. So here was Jesus, resting from His travels by a well in Samaria.

Then comes a woman who is known to have had five husbands and is currently living with a man who is not her husband. I’d like you to wear Middle Eastern, 2,000-year-old glasses for a moment. This woman probably lived with a very heavy sense of shame to the extent that she went out to the well close to noon, while it was very hot, probably to avoid meeting people who would give her “the looks” that she did everything to try to avoid.

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