That sweet precious baby boy that sometimes would fall down while playing, the one that cried out to her to pick him up.Can you imagine looking into those beautiful eyes knowing what his true purpose was?
As a mom, I can only imagine had I been in her shoes, how extremely hard it would have been for me to let go. I don't believe I could have let go. In fact I know I couldn't have. Could you?
I can sense how proud Mary was of the man her darling baby boy had grown to be; the joy of a mother's heart. And conversations that would forever be etched in her heart.
I believe that I would have wanted to beg God to not let it be. I would have cried out to please let the task my son was to full fill be removed. Selfish? Yes. In the natural of course I would have had those feelings, as any mother would. We have a bond with our children that are indescribable. Mary knew from the beginning the child she bore was the son of God. She knew that this precious miracle had a destiny to full fill, the new covenant between man and God.
She knew her son came to save the world.
As I watched the movie "The Passion of the Christ”,the connection I felt with Mary as she watches the pain and suffering her son goes through for all mankind, is more than over whelming for me. There are actually no words to describe my emotions.
God's word tells us in
1 John 4:9
In this the love of God was manifested towards us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
Could you give up your only son to take on all the sin of the world; every disease, every hardship and to have him die a sinner’s death to save the world?