A SWORD
WILL PIERCE YOUR HEART
CHRISTIANITY
In Protestant Christianity,
mostly due to the trauma suffered during the violent reformation days, the
person of St Mary, the mother of Lord JESUS, is usually relegated to almost
total silence, and among American evangelicals, is almost an act of idolatry to
even mention her name on special days, like Easter.
But regardless
these human concerns, the New Testament and apocrypha, contain enough
information about Mary, which is all we have about her person, to make an assessment
about the role and pain the mother of JESUS must have suffered during his
passion and death.
When Mary and
Joseph took Lord JESUS to be circumcised, as the Law commanded, the elder
Simeon said to Mary:
“Behold,
this Child is appointed to cause the rise and fall of many in Israel, and to be
a sign that will be spoken against, 35so that the thoughts of many hearts will
be revealed— AND A SWORD WILL PIERCE YOUR SOUL AS WELL.”
(Luke 2:34-35).
MARY NURSED
AND EDUCATED JESUS
It was Mary the
only woman chosen in all eternity, to be the mother of JESUS, and that alone
put her in a closer relationship with JESUS more than any other person in all
eternity. And we say in all eternity, because JESUS did not incarnate before or
planned to do it again. So eternally, MARY OF NAZARETH will be the mother of
Jesus in the flesh.
But she was not
only chosen for this role, but she accepted it freely, without understanding
fully what it would bring, but trusting totally in GOD (Luke 1:38).
She nursed her
baby taking care of herself, and later, by taking care of Lord JESUS, the MAKER
OF THE UNIVERSE, after He was born, feeding Him, changing his nappies, and
giving Him tender love and protection, under the guardianship of Joseph, the putative
father of Lord JESUS, partner and head of the family.
She developed love
for her own son, mostly not because she knew He was the Son of GOD, but because
He was formed in her womb.
JESUS HAD
MARY’S DNA
When GOD ALMIGHTY
YHWH, through his Spirit, created JESUS in Mary’s womb, He was born as an embryo,
and lasted the nine months as any human lasts in her mother’s belly.
JESUS was not
IMPLANTED into Mary, because it was necessary that a true human be born to
replace Adam and the human race, so GOD initiated the incarnation procedure from
step one, through conception.
Therefore, the
development of the human body of Lord JESUS took the normal process of all
human babies, taking DNA from Mary has her own mother, that united with the
miraculous DNA created by GOD, that gave birth to human JESUS.
This closeness
between Mary and Jesus, is also another factor that unites for eternity the
human Mary and the person of her own son, JESUS CHRIST. That alone, made Mary a
true mother of Jesus and not just a womb for hire. JESUS WAS TRULY HER SON, AND
WILL BE FOR ALL ETERNITY.
THE SWORD
THAT PIERCED HER SOUL
That way, loving
JESUS like a mother loves the product of her own womb, being Jesus truly her
son, an excruciating pain must she have felt when she saw her beloved son being
tortured and humiliated by the Romans, and furthermore, being nailed to the
cross to that excruciating death.
Not only that
destroyed Mary’s heart, but also her own believing soul, being unable to do
anything, and trusting LORD GOD YHWH that HE would restitute her son to life,
as HE had promised and JESUS many times said (Luke 9:22), regardless of all the
horror she was seeing.
MARY’S
LESSON TO US
St Mary of
Nazareth is the best example of submission to the will of GOD, and faithfulness
to her call.
She submitted to
the desire of the Father GOD in all trust, and remained faithful to HIM all along,
through Herod’s threats, through foreign distrust in Egypt, through adversity
in her own community and the synagogue, through the apprehension of Jesus, his
suffering and death, and not for a moment, she doubted GOD, her mission and her
love never dismayed.
She left
humanity the best lesson of all to follow before our Father in Heaven, that we
should never disregard.
And as a reward,
she always will be sitting in Glory, closest to her Son and the Father, together
with the apostles and the prophets of GOD, for all eternity.
Omar Flores
OFR.
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