The Mirror of the Word and other works by C.E. White can be purchased on her website, cewhitebooks.com or on Amazon.

“But Mary said to the angel, ‘How will this be, since I am a virgin?’ The angel answered and said to her, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; for that reason also the holy Child will be called the Son of God.’”

—Luke 1:34–35

As Christ was borne in Mary through the Holy Spirit, he is now borne in all believers.

We may ask, as Mary did, “How will this be?”

The answer is the same: by the power of the Holy Spirit. We are simply to obey and respond as she did, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.”

As we love him and submit to his Word, he comes and makes his dwelling place within us (John 14:23); we will see Christ being born in our lives. “Just as we have borne the image of the earthly, we will also bear the image of the heavenly” (1 Corinthians 15:49).

Our old flesh is in opposition to the Spirit (Galatians 5:17; 1 Peter 2:11), but through the Spirit’s power now in us, we put to death the deeds of the flesh (Romans 8:13) and use our bodies for righteousness (Romans 6:19), becoming honorable vessels for him (2 Timothy 2:21–22). 

Mary’s life is a picture of how our humble God has chosen to live within each of us. Our bodies are no longer our own, but we have become the temple of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 6:19).

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