Elizabeth

Luke 1:36-37 What’s more, your relative Elizabeth has become pregnant in her old age! People used to say she was barren, but she’s now in her sixth month. For nothing is impossible with God.”

This was a post statement made by Angel Gabriel after Mary had asked how she’d become pregnant yet she was a virgin.

She was told the Holy Spirit would come upon her, and … her cousin Elizabeth was pregnant. The news about Elizabeth were in the same order of impossibility just like Mary’s issue, but the fact that that impossibility had turned possible, the more the joy that hit Mary.

This not only brought joy to Mary, but also ministered comfort. It was a sign to confirm that what God had told her was indeed true and was to come to pass. The NLT version says ‘what’s more…’

I place myself in Mary’s shoes, and I imagine the state of shock or disbelief that I’d be experiencing… but when suddenly, I’m told my cousin who’s VERY OLD is expecting, I am entirely filled firstly with the joy like Sarah (who was beyond conceiving age) and then that joy will drive me to a place of contentment and convincing, that miracles still happen, including mine of becoming pregnant without having sex!

The entire moral of the story is an allegory of a sign. A sign of Elizabeth. Ruth, a sister of mine has been believing God for a 4matic Benz. We have prayed all year, and last week, before Christmas, she mentioned that her husband had just received a brand new powerful car with a very low mileage.

We rejoiced like we’d see her miracle so close. Her husband’s car was the Elizabeth to her own car. Elizabeth was also the cloud as small as a hand rising out of the sea when Elijah had prayed seven times for the rain to return.

Elizabeths are basically signs showing how close our miracles are and how next we are in line. People usually find it hard to believe if there’s no Elizabeth. Perhaps that’s why Sarah didn’t conceive quickly but after 24 years. Perhaps if she had seen another 120-year-old lady become pregnant, being announced by God Himself, perhaps Isaac would not have delayed, and the problem of Ishmael — even the suggestion by Sarah herself — would not have come up.

On the other hand, the just live by faith, but my sister’s husband’s receiving a brand new car doesn’t mean she doesn’t have faith. It’s more like an incentive, along the faith journey, exciting us in our patience, for the thing that’s to come.

May God present an Elizabeth for your situation, may you see the sign that comes like her, in case you’ve been missing it, and may you know that even if some things seem impossible to man (even what you’re believing for), to God, nothing is!