Risk all for
love, Jesus tells us, even your own life. Give that to me and let me save it.
The healthy religious person is the one who allows God to do the
saving, while I do my part to bring up the rear.
It always feels like a loss of
power and certitude at the beginning, which is why it is called faith, and why
true Biblical faith is probably somewhat rare.
Mary, the Mother
of Jesus, sums up in herself the attitude of one of the ”little poor ones” whom
God is able to save because they are not self-entitled (the anawim as
in Zephaniah 2:3, 3:12). She is deeply aware of her own emptiness
without God (Luke 1:52). She longs for the fulfillment of God’s promise (1:54); she has left herself open, available for God’s work (1:45, 49). And when the call comes, she makes a full personal
surrender: “Let it be!” (1:38).
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