Who Cares...when I Have An Unplanned Pregnancy? Series

But I choose to believe that our loving Father looks down upon both the infant born as the result of a cowardly attack, and the infant born to a mom who isn’t even old enough to drive, and He sees them as “legitimate lives.” And I believe that regardless of the circumstances that led to the unexpected pregnancy, when we stop pondering the past, meet them in the present and begin walking into the future, we can recognize God’s grace and approach that new life, that precious infant, as a sign of God’s favor.

You see, we like to sterilize the Bible. We act like, “Well, it was easy for Mary. She had an angel and everything.” Man, if you think Mary being pregnant, as an unmarried teenage girl, was any easier on her then than it is on any 2007 Lexington teenager just because she had seen an angel. I’m sorry, but you are crazy. It was a disgrace. Probably even more so then, than it is now when the numbers show the commonality of such a crisis.

For Mary, it probably looked and felt something like this. . . (show Nativity Clip of Joseph confronting Mary on news of pregnancy)

A tough situation to say the least. Life is hard. And yet Mary approached her challenge with favor. The blessing of new life. The grace of God. Secondly. . .

2. MARY APPROACHED HER UNEXPECTED TURN WITH.... FAITH.

Look at Mary’s question for Gabriel (read verse 34). How? Not the question I would have asked, and do ask. You know what question I would have asked? “Why?” “Why me?” “Why now?” “Can’t this wait until after the wedding?” But Mary asks, “How?” It seems that Mary already believes that it will happen, she just doesn’t know how it will happen.

Look back at verse 18, and check out the difference in tone and question of Zechariah. (read verse 18) Now that’s a man’s response. “Come on. How in the world is my wife going to get pregnant? I’m old. And oh man, have you seen her wrinkles? We are old.”

Mary seems to have never doubted that God could do it. How “will” this happen? I know God will do it, now just tell me what’s going to happen in my life.

As difficult as the situation Mary faces might be, Mary is still able to do something at fourteen years of age that many of us struggle with today. Mary still has no hesitation to trust God and to trust God completely. She knows that God is not only present in her situation but that God surrounds every aspect of her condition. So no matter how difficult things might appear, her circumstance is one for celebration and thanksgiving because she trusts that God is with her.

You see, either it was all edited out, or Mary was not angry about all the difficulties her pregnancy would bring upon her. Mary still trusted that God would never abandon His children of whom she was one, and one of which He was creating inside of her.

One more. And this next point determines whether we will successfully negotiate just about any of life’s unexpected turns. Not just an unplanned pregnancy.

3. MARY APPROACHED HER UNEXPECTED TURN WITH...FLEXIBILITY.

Look again with me at verse 38 (read). Okay. Did you really hear that this morning? This is a young, teenage girl. She is a virgin. She is supposed to be married to a man whose very word regarding this pregnancy can result in her death as it becomes public knowledge. She can be stoned for this.