1 Sam 1:24-28 / Luke 1:46-56
Generally speaking, in order to believe in something, it must be logical and must make sense to us.
We also want to understand it fully in order so that we are clear about its capabilities and limitations.
Yet when it comes to our understanding and belief in God, everything is almost reversed.
We can understand only so much about God from theology, yet God is beyond our comprehension.
God also has a mysterious way of doing things which challenges our human ways and understanding.
For e.g. when He delivered Israel out of Egypt, He chose Moses who had a speech impediment to negotiate with Pharaoh.
When He chose a mother for His only Son, He chose an unknown ordinary girl.
And that girl sang a hymn that portrayed God who turns things upside down.
He blesses the humble, He blesses the poor, He blesses the hungry.
If anything, the God that we believe in is nothing less than revolutionary.
The God who is praised in the Magnificat is certainly not a God who conforms to our ideas and neither to the world's ideas and standards.
Yet we can be sure of this one thing about God - that God is magnificently merciful.
He will come to the help of His humble servants, He will remember His mercy to us.
Let us deepen our faith and prayer as we prepare to encounter the mystery of the Incarnation at Christmas.