Luke 1:24-25 Soon afterward his wife Elizabeth, became pregnant and went into seclusion for five months. "How kind the Lord is!" she exclaimed. "He has taken away my disgrace...."
The Lord is so kind to all of us in so many ways it would be hard to recount them all. Not least, at the cross, Jesus took away our disgrace whatever shape that has taken. If we were asked we may all have a different reason to feel disgrace or shame. Sometimes people have put labels on us saying what we did or said was disgraceful or shameful and labels can hurt.
So just what is disgrace? The dictionary says it's something to cause one to fall from a place of respect or honour or a position of favour. Dis-grace. To come out of a position of grace, a position of favour.
For Elizabeth in her culture at that time, even though God called her righteous, (see v.6) the culture called her a disgrace just because she couldn't have a baby which in our culture is no disgrace. But for her it was huge.
How important for us to know and remind ourselves that God has given us His grace and called us righteous, because of Jesus and the cross. It makes no difference what our culture or the world calls us or labels us. How God sees us and calls is all that counts!
How kind the Lord is to us! He has declared us righteous and holy in His sight. We can go out today with our heads help up regardless of what the world says because we know what God has said about us. We too can say with Elizabeth...
HOW KIND THE LORD IS! HE HAS TAKEN AWAY MY DISGRACE! Hallelujah! Thank You Jesus.
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