God is at Work in Your Life

“The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored!

The Lord is with you.”

Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.”

“How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?”

The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”

Luke 1:28-35

Just because life is dysfunctional does not mean God is not at work in your life.

We think to ourselves that because God is perfect and because God is at work in my life, then my life must be perfect.

But when reality sinks in is when the most damaging thoughts run through our mind – “If my life is dysfunctional then surely God is not in it.”

But as the overwhelming evidence of scripture shows, this just is not true.

God is with us in the midst of it all.

There was probably not a worse time to have to travel then when Mary was about to give birth.

She wasn’t traveling so her new child would be with family or to see the best doctor’s money could buy.

She and Joseph had set out for Bethlehem because the government ordered all men back to the ancestral homes in order to calculate a tax that was coming.

Not the best timing – yet God was in it.

The Son of God wasn’t born in a manger because two centuries later it would make for a much cuter Hallmark card than one taken in an Inn.

Not the best maternity ward – yet God was in it too.

Maybe your circumstances aren’t too ‘pretty’ today.

Maybe all you see is dysfunction and confusion and chaos.

If that is true, let me encourage you that God has not abandoned you any more than He Mary, Joseph and Jesus.

He is working His work in your life.  

Don’t despair, don’t give up  - hand it back to Him and hold on to His hand as He brings you through!