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\u201cPraise\u2026 with Elizabeth\u201d \u2013 Luke 1:39-45<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Introduction: A long, dark hallway<\/h4>\n

\u201cDaddy?\u201d A little child touched his father\u2019s forehead. The dad opened his eyes, fixed on the digital clock by his bed. It read 1:45. That would be a.m. \u201cYeah, son.\u201d \u201cI need to go to the bathroom.\u201d \u201cFine, Pal. Thanks for the update!\u201d The child was four years old. Builders had just remodeled their home and a bathroom was now down a long hallway. When you\u2019re four years old and wandering around the house at night, a new hallway looks five kilometers long with multiple side rooms, where giants and boogey-men are waiting to jump out and gobble up little kids for late-night snacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cDaddy?\u201d the child asked. \u201cYeah son,\u201d the father groaned. \u201cPlease come with me.\u201d \u201cThanks for the invitation, son, but for some reason I\u2019m tired. You go ahead.\u201d Shuffle. Shuffle. Stop. Turn around. Shuffle. Shuffle. Back. \u201cDaddy?\u201d \u201cYes, son.\u201d \u201cPlease come with me?\u201d \u201cOkay.\u201d The father crawled out of bed and walked with his son. \u201cThanks, daddy.\u201d He was grateful for his dad\u2019s presence on the dark journey. The child had never been this way before.<\/p>\n

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1. Hallways for Elizabeth and Mary (and us)<\/h4>\n

Neither had Elizabeth \u2013 an older woman. Neither had Mary \u2013 a young woman.<\/p>\n

Luke writes. \u201cIn those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a town in Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.\u201d Let me remind you how the stories began for those two women:<\/p>\n

We heard about Elizabeth and Zechariah last Sunday \u2013 that \u201cwell along in years\u201d devout and upright couple that had longed for a child, but were still childless with little hope of that changing. We heard how that did change the day Zechariah was in the temple praying and offering incense. An angel \u2013 Gabriel – appeared to him to tell him that he and Elizabeth would soon become parents of a son \u2013 John – a son who would prepare the way of the Lord. When Zechariah went back home after his temple service was completed, sure enough Elizabeth became pregnant.<\/p>\n

Mary\u2026 well, she was childless, too, but for a good reason \u2013 she was young, and not yet married to her fianc\u00e9, Joseph. God sent an angel to her, too \u2013 the same angel, Gabriel. Gabriel announced that the Holy Spirit \u2013 the very power of the Most High God – will come upon the virgin Mary and that she will bear a son, God\u2019s Son – Jesus. Gabriel\u2019s last words, in response to Mary\u2019s obvious question of how, were, \u201cNothing is impossible with God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mary knew she had never been this way before. Her hallway looked five kilometers long with multiple side rooms, where giants and boogey-men were waiting to jump out and gobble her up for a late-night snack. How was Mary going to explain all of this to her parents? To Joseph? To her friends?<\/p>\n

Elizabeth had never been this way before \u2013 at least, not for herself. She probably went down this hallway lots of times before with various friends and family members. But she had never been down this hallway before, not for herself. How was she going to explain all of this to her friends? That\u2019s why the Bible says she went into seclusion, self-isolation, quarantine \u2013 not for 14 days, but for 5 whole months. Although she acknowledged that God had removed from her the disgrace of being childless, there would be a certain embarrassment about becoming pregnant at her age. She and Zechariah would have to get the nursery ready, and she might wonder if she still remembered how to change diapers. No, Elizabeth had never been this way before.<\/p>\n

You know the same sinking feeling. So do I. Maybe you\u2019re terrified at the thought of bringing a new child home, or watching your last child leave home. Maybe you\u2019re faced with a family situation that has your stomach tied up in knots. Maybe you\u2019re not sure now was the right time to quit your job and begin your own business. Or maybe the loss of your job or reduction of hours during Covid-19 has made your financial future frightening at the worst and uncertain at the best. Maybe that recent medical diagnosis is just the first step into that long, unwelcome hallway. Some of us are facing a future that only God knows, and it is potentially painful, and definitely anxiety creating. Whatever our long, dark hallway, we know we\u2019ve never been this way before.<\/p>\n

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2. Hallway temptations<\/h4>\n

When we take the first step into that hallway, temptations are at least three-fold. The first thing we can do is\u2026 do nothing. That\u2019s what Elizabeth seems to have done \u2013 seclusion, stay hidden. Close the curtains. Shut the doors. Stay put in the hill country of Judea. Block all calls. Ignore text messages and social media posts. Not seek out anyone\u2019s friendship or compassion. When we\u2019re thrust into a difficult situation, it\u2019s tempting to isolate ourselves, curl up into a fetal position and hope to die. Do nothing.<\/p>\n

The second temptation is to make excuses. If anyone had a list of valid excuses, it had to be\u2026 Mary. \u201cI\u2019m too young. I\u2019m engaged to Joseph \u2013 I can\u2019t have a baby with someone else, not even God! We weren\u2019t planning on starting a family so soon!\u201d And the most obvious excuse, \u201cI\u2019m a virgin! I may be young, but I\u2019m not ignorant of human biology. How can I have a baby?\u201d<\/p>\n

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On the internet, I recently found this list of excuses for not going to work.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a secret. If I tell you, you\u2019ll be in grave danger.<\/p>\n

My psychic told me not to come in to work today.<\/p>\n

I climbed a tree to rescue a cat and now I\u2019m stuck in that tree.<\/p>\n

I slept funny on my arms and now they\u2019re asleep.<\/p>\n

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We all have a list of excuses as to why we won\u2019t follow God\u2019s leading down long, dark hallways or even down shorter, lightened hallways.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have the right skills and experience. Someone else must be better qualified.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand the whole assignment, I can\u2019t see the entire road. I\u2019m not going.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m too busy, too tired and too old.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t be sure that you\u2019re going with me\u2026 after all, God, you are invisible, you know!\u201d<\/p>\n

The third temptation when stepping into that long hallway is to become overwhelmed with fear. We couldn\u2019t blame Elizabeth if she had become paralyzed with fear as she listened to voices like, \u201cDon\u2019t you know what the statistics say about giving birth at YOUR AGE? Say no to courage and yes to caution. How are you going to handle him when he\u2019s a teenager? Expect the worst. Triple-lock all doors. Protect yourself in a tight radius of won\u2019ts, don\u2019ts, can\u2019ts and quits. Think about every possible peril. Worry yourself sick with \u2018What if?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

We all know these voices. Overwhelmed with fear, we become angry, short-fused and a bear to live with. And we refuse with all our might to take step number 2 down that unknown hallway.<\/p>\n

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3. Praise for the real presence of God<\/h4>\n

Yet when God calls us, as one of our worship prayers says, to \u201cgo into ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown\u201d He doesn\u2019t call us to go alone. God knows that long, dark hallways aren\u2019t conquered by promising, \u201cI\u2019ll be with you in spirit.\u201d A mystical, abstract, vague presence does no one any good. Just ask a four-year old. No. Dark hallways need real presence \u2013 the real presence of a dad who holds your hand as you walk down that hallway. And real presence is exactly what God delivers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, \u2018Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me?\u2019\u201d Note the joy! Elizabeth is filled with the Holy Spirit and rejoices and praises God. Oh, that\u2019s our theme verb for today \u2013 praise! It sounds like she is honouring and praising Mary: \u201cBlessed are you among women\u2026 Blessed is she who has believed.\u201d<\/p>\n

For you see, often in the Old Testament, and especially in the Psalms, the word \u201cblessed\u201d is virtually a synonym for \u201cpraise.\u201d Maybe you\u2019ve heard some of those verses: \u201cBless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name.\u201d OR \u201cBlessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.\u201d OR what about this one from Job, after he had lost EVERYTHING: \u201cThe Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.\u201d On each of those occasions and on many more the word \u201cbless\u201d was used to give praise and honour to God.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlessed are you among women\u2026 Blessed is she who has believed.\u201d Yes, it sounds like Elizabeth is honouring and praising Mary. But wait\u2026 Even Elizabeth\u2019s baby – John the Baptist – leaps in his mother\u2019s womb. From one womb to another, John recognizes Jesus, the Saviour. Imagine what this does for Mary! It lifts her spirit. It gives her courage. It puts resolve in her heart and confidence in her future as she anticipates walking down her long, dark hallway \u2013 maybe alone, potentially with no Joseph, and no parental support.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth had earlier praised God \u2013 \u201cThe Lord has done this for me\u2026 taken away my disgrace of being childless.\u201d<\/p>\n

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4. Praise for MY LORD!<\/h4>\n

There is more praise here. Did you catch what Elizabeth says? She calls Mary \u201cthe mother of MY LORD!\u201d Jesus is Lord! Earlier in Luke 1, Gabriel calls Jesus \u201cSon of the Most High.\u201d The one who will sit on \u201cthe throne of his father David.\u201d \u201cHe will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.\u201d These are great names for and descriptions of Jesus, but there is no name higher than Lord. And that\u2019s what Elizabeth affirms \u2013 the mother of MY LORD!!<\/p>\n

Jesus isn\u2019t an assistant to God the Father or a junior-partner of the religious law firm. Jesus isn\u2019t the vice-president of the universe. Jesus is a full-fledged member of the Godhead, equal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, in every way – from eternity past, all the way through eternity future. John says, \u201cThrough him all things were made.\u201d Paul proclaims, \u201cHe is the image of the invisible God.\u201d And the writer of Hebrews says Jesus is, \u201cthe radiance of God\u2019s glory and the exact representation of his being.\u201d Jesus is Lord \u2013 that is\u2026 God in the flesh, God that we can see, God really present!<\/p>\n

Jesus our Lord took on flesh and blood so that he could take us into his arms, heal our hurts, forgive our sin and destroy our darkness. Jesus our Lord \u201ccame down and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit.\u201d He did it to be Emmanuel – God with us through life\u2019s dark and difficult journeys and hallways. Jesus never stopped going down. He went so low as to humble himself to death – even death on a cross\u2026 to save us. Although He is the source of truth, He was found guilty of an apparent lie. Although He is the source of light, for three hours He hangs in the darkness. Although He is the source of life, He was crucified, dead\u2026 and buried. This is no sentimental or syrupy love. But a fierce love for us. Driven by nails. Marked with scars. Crowned with thorns. And risen from the dead to reign and rule our lives with deep compassion and transforming grace.<\/p>\n

What did Mary say when Elizabeth called her, \u201cthe mother of my Lord?\u201d Luke tells us in the very next verse: \u201cMy soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior.\u201d Mary walked down her long, dark hallway. And she did it with great joy because she was encouraged by Elizabeth\u2019s words! Mary, too, praised God!<\/p>\n

This is our song and response as well! During this Advent, we prepare with John the Baptizer, we pray with Zechariah, and we praise with Elizabeth (and Mary). Here is what our praise sounds like during the Christmas season as we recognize Jesus as Lord:<\/p>\n

\u201cO come to us, abide with us, Our LORD Immanuel!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJoy to the world, the LORD is come!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus, LORD, at Thy birth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBe near me, LORD Jesus, I ask Thee to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cCome, adore on bended knee Christ the LORD, the newborn King.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cO come, let us adore Him, Christ the LORD!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jesus our Lord guides us by his real presence – His Gospel proclaimed; the baptismal deliverance remembered; the body and blood of Holy Communion celebrated. And with joy we await our final journey – the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to come!<\/p>\n

Because of Christ\u2019s cleansing blood, his resurrection joy and the power of Pentecost, many believers are bold to march straight ahead into long, dark hallways. Paul tells us why in 2 Corinthians 2:14: \u201cBut thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ.\u201d<\/p>\n

Whatever your long, dark hallway looks like, listen – God is calling. God is calling you to \u201cGo.\u201d But God guarantees you will never, ever, EVER go it alone. Christ is leading you in triumphal procession. That\u2019s why, with the joy of Elizabeth, we take our step with these words from Philippians 4: \u201cRejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, rejoice.\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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