DECEMBER 12 MARY’S SONG By George Murray Former President and Chancellor, Columbia International University
Today’s Passage: Luke 1:46–56
“My soul exalts the Lord, and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.”
These are the opening words of the song (Luke 1:46–55) that the virgin Mary sang when her cousin Elizabeth confirmed (Luke 1:43) that Mary would give birth to the Son of God. Bible commentators and historians estimate Mary was about 15 years of age when she uttered these wonderful words. What does that tell us? It tells us that God can use teenagers to bring Christ to the world around them now, just as He used Mary to bring Christ to the world then. There are many professing Christians who venerate the virgin Mary above the Lord Jesus, but any careful study of her song here in Luke 1 shows that such veneration is wrong. While Mary mentions herself six times in this song, she mentions the Lord by name or personal pronoun eighteen times! And she clearly negates the erroneous teaching of her sinless perfection by admitting her need for the Son of God to be her personal Savior (Luke 1:47). If you are a teenager, or the parent of a teenager, I invite you to study this song of Mary carefully to discover how deeply a young person can know the Lord (exalting Him, verse 46; rejoicing in Him, verse 47; serving Him, verse 48; fearing Him, verse 50) and can be used by the Lord to testify of His salvation to everyone.
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