Nine months before Jesus Christ was born, Mary’s life was turned upside down by an angel’s message—but she magnified the Lord through praise. In these weeks filled with busyness and distractions, is your heart overcome with worship?
“Mary’s song is traditionally called the Magnificat. It’s Latin for ‘my soul magnifies the Lord,’” said Cissie Graham Lynch.
Lynch recently spoke at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia, and encouraged the audience to pause, slow down, and learn from one of the central characters of the Christmas story: the mother of Jesus.
Mary may not have had all the answers, but she trusted in the One who did.
“[Mary] at a young age had a generational understanding of the faithfulness of God,” Lynch explained, adding that Mary modeled four disciplines that we can follow today. “She submitted, she served, she suffered, and … she sang.”
Everyone faces challenges—not just at Christmas, but all year long—Lynch said, and it was the same with Mary. Opening her Bible, Lynch looked at the ways the mother of the Messiah could have crumbled under the pressures of her own life.
“How often do we learn our sweetest songs in those darkest moments in our life?” Lynch said, sharing her own struggle to trust God through difficult seasons.
She offered a message of hope to anyone else facing a hard Christmas.
“This holiday season, instead of making doubt and fear and discontentment our soundtrack, we [can] sing this Christmas song that Mary sang—and we [can] sing it all year long.”
