Women, Called and Serving in Leadership

Consider Mary

March 25, 2009 on 12:27 pm | In Women in Ministry | No Comments

As I prayed this morning I thanked God for revealing Mary as an example of heeding the call of God to service/ministry. As I prayed I saw again the shining example Mary is to all Christians – both male and female. Mary upon hearing God’s call (call = God’s revealed plan for how He desired to use her for His purposes) readily received and accepted God’s plan of use. May we do likewise. May we respond, “Yes, Lord!”

God’s call — His revealed plan for our use according to His purposes — to Mary is no different than His call to each of us today. God is still revealing to us as individuals His plan of how He desires to use us for His purposes. May we respond, “Yes, Lord!” as He speaks and reveals His will for each of us.

Last night as I considered Mary I realized God’s call on her life included so much more. God’s call on Mary’s life was so much more than the only task we’ve ascribed to her of carrying Jesus in her womb and giving birth to Him.

She was with Him through it all. She loved, nurtured, and trained Him as a child. She was not only with Him from the beginning of His ministry at the wedding in Cana (according to the gospel of John) but she was the instigator of its start through her faith in Him as she pushed for Him to publicly do something about the need for wine. (I see so much analogy here of our need for the new wine of the Holy Spirit which is only available through Jesus.) She was with Him all the way to the very end at the cross. Her call does not end there but continues on as His disciple in the upper room.

I am learning so much as the Lord has taken me to this place of considering Mary.