“Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.” Isaiah 7:14
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” Matthew 1:23
God spoke through the prophet Isaiah (about 800 B.C.) that the virgin was going to be with child! This child wasn’t going to come through a man’s decision but God’s decision. Mary made herself an available vessel for God, and the Spirit of God came upon Mary, and she became pregnant with the promised son.
After the fall of Adam & Eve into sin, every generation of humanity has been born into sin and shaped into iniquity. Every person has the issue of SIN nature, and he/she also chooses to commit sin by not following God’s standard of holiness. Since Jesus was born of the Spirit of God, He didn’t come into the world with a SIN nature because His father was not a descendant of Adam!
Jesus came into the world free from SIN nature. Throughout His life, when Jesus was tempted He did not sin (Hebrews 4:15). His virgin birth had a great purpose in the eternal plan of salvation and allowed Him to be the only qualified person who could take on the sin of the world including our sins upon Himself.
Jesus’ virgin birth prophetically was spoken by Isaiah centuries earlier. Most likely the prophecy didn’t make any sense to Isaiah or his counterparts! The questions of “How can this be?” and “Why would God allow it?” could have surrounded this prophecy, but nevertheless Isaiah in obedience foretold of the coming Immanuel.
Centuries later, Mary accepted and received the prophetic declaration over her life. Did Mary’s virgin birth make any sense to Joseph or even Mary!? Absolutely not. As a matter of fact, Joseph was trying to divorce her quietly because of it. They didn’t know what God was trying to do, and why Jesus had to come from the virgin birth.
As a woman, it would not be easy to accept the assignment of virgin birth even in this day and age. In spite of the risk of humiliation, divorce, and ridicule, Mary accepted the assignment, and she became the conduit in fulfilling the will of God for the salvation of humanity!
Are there areas in your life that have never made sense to you? Some of those areas could be: place of your birth, the circumstances of your birth, your family of origin, a birthmark, a birth defect, your gender, or your ethnicity.God is an intentional God, and how He created you was not a mistake. Ask Him to reveal His purpose in His design for you!
