Magnificat

And Mary said:

"My soul magnifies the Lord,

and my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.

For He has regarded the lowly state of His maidservant;

for behold, henceforth all generations will call me blessed.

For he who is mighty has done great things for me,

and holy is His name.

And His mercy is on those who fear Him

from generation to generation.

He has shown strength with His arm;

He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.

He has put down the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things,

and the rich He has sent away empty.

He has helped His servant Israel

in remembrance of His mercy,

as He spoke to our fathers,

to Abraham and to his seed forever."

Luke 1:46-55

I love it when a Psalmist or songwriter is moved by the Holy Spirit to recount all the things that God has done. Mary may have been riding a roller coaster of pendulous emotions, not to mention the physical, chemical and hormonal changes that were taking place in her body. She may have been apprehensive about her present and uncertain of her future. But when the Holy Ghost came upon her, all of that vanished away in a magnificent praise to the Lord who had chosen her.

All that was within her, everything that made her who she was as the woman God had selected for this privilege of bringing the Christ into the world, her mind, her will, her emotions, her innermost being--they all cried out to the Lord! "With every breath I take, I will declare God great! With every vital, life-giving force inside me, I exult with exceeding gladness in the God who has delivered, preserved and saved me!"

Those words tell us all we need to know about the uncertainty of tomorrow.

I may not have it all figured out. I may not have ever answer to every question, every solution to every problem. I may not have a strategy worked out in my brain for every potential possibility that may arise in my path. But this one thing I know: God is great and greatly to be praised! I may not know what tomorrow holds, but I know who holds tomorrow!

Therefore my soul magnifies, and my spirit rejoices!