Topic: A Godly Girl from a Godless Place – Daily Devotional by Greg Laurie Ministry 10 December 2022
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A Godly Girl from a Godless Place
by Greg Laurie on Dec 10, 2022
In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a village in Galilee, to a virgin named Mary. She was engaged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of King David.
—Luke 1:26–27
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Parents have named more daughters after Mary, the mother of Jesus, than after any other woman who has ever lived. Mary was such a special woman for so many reasons. She was the only person who was present at both the birth and death of Jesus Christ.
Jesus entered the world as Mary’s Son and left the world as her Savior. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit in Mary’s womb and then came into her heart.
Mary was living in Nazareth when the angel Gabriel arrived with a message for her. Now, Nazareth was renowned for its wickedness. Cities have a reputation for certain things. For example, we sometimes refer to Rome as the eternal city. We know Paris as the city of lights. New York is the city that never sleeps. And people call Las Vegas sin city.
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In Mary’s day, they could have used the same nickname for Nazareth. Roman soldiers stopped in Nazareth on their way to somewhere else. And because they spent a lot of time there, more than one young woman in Nazareth found herself pregnant.
In fact, when Philip told Nathanael that Jesus was from Nazareth, Nathanael asked, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” (John 1:46 NLT).
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Maybe you find yourself surrounded by nonbelievers, and you’re wondering how you can live a godly life amidst them. You can do it with God’s power, just as Mary did.
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