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Text: "... for [God] has regarded the low estate of His handmaiden." (Luke 1:48)

You’ve all heard us speak of Mary in church this Christmas season: do you know what is really so amazing about Mary? (Let them answer) It’s not just that she was the mother of Jesus, which is pretty amazing in itself. No, I think the most amazing thing about Mary is that she was such an ordinary person.

Mary was just a young teenager when God chose her to be Jesus’ mother; in fact, she wasn’t much older than some of you. She lived in a small town in a small house with her parents and the rest of her family. Everything about her life was ordinary.

The Bible doesn’t give any particular reason to explain why Mary was chosen by God. It doesn’t say she was especially smart or unusually pretty. It d…