March 20, 2011
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God, Your will be done
Consider Mary's attitude: "And Mary said, "Behold, the bondslave of the Lord; may it be done to me according to your word." (Luke 1:38)
We don't always get to choose our role. The announcement to Mary that God had chosen her as the mother of the Messiah must have been a shock. In some ways it was a great assignment; a great honor. In other ways it was a very painful assignment, as she would have to endure a lot of grief from her friends and family thinking she had committed fornication, then later experience the pain of seeing her son Jesus rejected and killed by her nation.
The world is currently watching as the heroic Japanese "Fukushima Fifty" nuclear workers risk huge doses of radiation and subsequent cancer, repeatedly entering damaged nuclear power plants that randomly explode every few days... all because they are faithful to their duty and their country, and because they are the only ones who can help.
You may be in a situation right now that you would extremely rather not be in. But if we belong to Jesus, we can simply submit to whatever assignment He gives us. It may be painful here and now, but the end result of submission to God is great beauty, the salvation of other precious souls, and greater eternal joy.
"For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison..."
2 Corinthians 4:17
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