The Song Of Mary, Controversial Or What?

I know so many people who are not Christian, and who publically deny the church, religion and Jesus Christ; and through them, I not only see what they are missing, I can see the benefits of what we have in our saviour Jesus Christ.

It is a different way of looking at it, we have a personal saviour to forgive our sins, and sometimes we ourselves do not see it.

How do you get across to someone, that what-ever happens, that whenever we sin, we simply confess that sin to God and he forgives us? It sounds too good to be true, but you know, that is what 1 John 1:9 says: that “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness”.

It might be painful, or we would simply commit the same sins again, but we are cleansed from unrighteousness.

The second thing Mary sang was: “God has performed mighty deeds”, and the keyword here is victory. The mighty deeds that God was doing would overcome the world and turn the world up-side-down.

Mary sang about God scattering the proud. She said that he brought down rulers from their thrones and lifted up the humble. He fed the hungry, and sent the rich away with empty stomachs.

I watched a program on TV on Monday night there, Panorama, about the Barclay brothers, identical twin Billionaires, both knighted by the Queen, both respectable men of our society.

Yet it was instantly clear to me, that despite their great wealth, these men were not happy men. Yet in contrast, we in our humble capacities can worship God here this morning, and despites our problems and shortcomings, we can be at one with him, and at one with ourselves. What a difference a saviour can make!

Those Barclay brothers with all there billions, cannot buy the relationship we have with God. I am sure they have their problems the same as, but on a different scale, but they would benefit from knowing a God who loves them, just as we benefitted, and we need to be reminded of this for it is so easy for the world to get the better of us.

Through Jesus, God has turned the tables on the world. Those who were or are proud, those having power in this world to oppress others will be, and were scattered by God. Those who ruled with injustice will and have been pulled down from their thrones, and humble servants put in their place.

Those who used their wealth to oppress the poor will, and have lived in spiritual hunger, while those who are the poor of this world will, and have been filled with all the good things of God. You can see the beatitudes coming in here.

Luke 6:20 “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh”; and the rest of the beatitudes of course.

Jesus is our Saviour who righted the wrongs of the world, and gave those who are downtrodden great reason to rejoice. Jesus came for everyone, regardless of their status in the world, including the Virgin Mary. The humble are valued by God, but God can also accept the arrogant if they approach him in humility; few seldom do.