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Week 1 Day 4

Week 1 Day 4

December 02, 2021

Week 1 Day 4

Mary's Visit to Elizabeth

Scripture: Luke 1:39-45 (NIV)

At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”


Devotional

In Luke 1:15, the angel promised Zechariah that his son would be “filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth.” Now when Mary visits Elizabeth, while both are pregnant, it says, “Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit” (v. 41).

This raises so many questions. Could it be that the Holy Spirit filled the baby in the womb when He filled his mother? What does this say about pregnancy? How important is it for a woman to be godly while she is carrying a baby? By her choices, can she deliver a child who already has the hand of God on him or her? Conversely, can she bring evil upon her unborn baby by dabbling in the demonic?

Or was it the other way around? Perhaps the unborn baby was already filled with the promised Holy Spirit. And when he “leaped in her womb…for joy”, the Holy Spirit leaped through the amniotic fluid straight into Elizabeth’s soul. What does this say about how contagious the blessings and glory of God are?

Finally, maybe the Holy Spirit did His work of infilling each of them independent of one another. God is sovereign, after all. Still, the context and flow of this passage seem to connect the events together. AS the baby leaped in the womb, the pregnant mom was filled with the Spirit of God!

Elizabeth goes on to call Mary blessed among women, calling her “the mother of my Lord.” In an instant, the Holy Spirit revealed to her that this unborn baby would one day be her Savior and Lord.


Poem

Leap, O Spirit
Leap, O Spirit, leap in me
Come alive, your Lord to greet

Kick the boundaries of your womb
Come alive, out of the tomb

Jump for joy your dance of praise
Come alive, blessings to raise

Surge within, set life a-fire
Come alive, my one desire


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