March 29: Let It Be to Me

You don’t understand everything God is asking. Do you have to before you say yes?

Mary was young, engaged, ordinary. Then an angel appeared and told her something that would turn her life upside down. She would have a child, by the Holy Spirit, and He would be the Son of God.

She asked one honest question: how can this be? The angel gave her an answer that probably didn’t make it much clearer. Then Mary said: Behold, the servant of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.

She didn’t understand it all. She couldn’t see how it would work out. She surely knew it would cost her. People would talk. Joseph might leave. And she said yes anyway.

That’s what a Step Three decision looks like. Not having it all figured out. Saying yes to God before the details are clear.

Many people hesitate at Step Three because they want to understand first. What exactly will God ask of me? What will change? What if He asks for something I don’t want to give? Those are honest questions, and it’s fine to ask them, the way Mary did. But at some point, the decision is a yes or a no. Waiting to understand everything can become a way of staying in control.

Mary’s yes was simple. “I’m Yours. Let it happen the way You said.” That’s very close to the heart of the Third Step prayer: offering yourself to God to build with and to do with as He wants.

Her yes also led somewhere. Not to an easy life. Mary saw her son rejected and killed. But it led to joy beyond anything she could have imagined, and it made her part of the greatest story ever told.

Your yes won’t make your life easy either. But it will make it part of something good.

If you want to talk through what’s holding you back from saying yes, Jimmy and Sarah in the Steps & Scripture app can help you sort out the questions.

One thing today

Write down one question you still have about turning your life over to God. Then write Mary’s words under it. Say them out loud, even with the question still open.

A prayer

Lord, I don’t understand everything You’re asking. But I’m Yours. Let it be to me according to Your word.

Saying yes is Step Three.

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