People of the Advent: Elizabeth

 

Luke 1:6(ESV)

⁶ And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.

 Luke 1:5-24

Ah, Elizabeth.  She is said to be a righteous woman. It says she kept God’s statutes.  Wow!  She must have been amazing!  Yet she was barren.  She longed to be a mother, but she had no children.  That apparently carried a stigma in her culture.  She may have felt she was a failure.  She felt she did not quite measure up.  Yet God was preparing her to have a very special child.  God was in charge of the timing.  See, He had a big plan!  She was part of the big plan! 

 

She conceived and was so glad.  The stigma was abolished.  Somehow she now measured up in the eyes of society.

 

She was righteous and God rewarded that.  She understood Mary’s situation. When Mary came to her house, she rejoiced, even though others looked askance at Mary.  Elizabeth continued to learn God’s ways in her old age.  She obeyed and stood up to well-meaning friends who rejected the name John.  She obeyed, no matter what.  What a lady! 

 

I want to be righteous and obey no matter what!