How Dis One Go Take Happen?

One young woman just hear di most surprising news wey anybody don ever hear. One angel stand for her front. She draw breath, and she ask one simple, honest question. How?

We dey Nazareth, one small village for di hills of Galilee. Di angel Gabriel don come meet Mary, one young woman wey don betroth to Joseph, wey come from King David line. E don tell her say she go get son, say she go name am Jesus, and say e go rule for David throne forever. Mary never marry. She and Joseph don promise each other, but dem never start to live together. For Nazareth, everybody know everybody. Di well, di farm, di small synagogue: news dey travel fast for village like dis. Mary grow up dey hear as dem dey read di old promises out, about one king from David family, about one child wey dem go call Immanuel. But she no ever imagine say di promise go knock her own door. So one question dey wey she no fit but ask.

Mary tell di angel, How dis one go take happen, since I never know any man? She still be virgin. How she go take get pikin? See di difference between Mary question and Zechariah own, six months before. Zechariah ask, how I go take dey sure? E want proof before e go believe. Mary no ask for proof. She no talk say, I no believe you. She believe say e go happen. Na how she dey ask. And Gabriel no scold her. E answer her.

Di angel talk, Di Holy Spirit go come on top you, and di power of di Most High go cover you like shadow. So di holy child wey you go born, dem go call am di Son of God. Dis child no go come di normal way. Na God imself go do am. Di word cover like shadow dey remind us of di cloud of God presence wey cover di tabernacle for di wilderness. Then Gabriel give Mary one sign wey she no ask for. Your relative Elizabeth sef don get belle for son for her old age. Di woman wey people dey call barren don enter her sixth month now. And then di words wey be di heart of dis story: Because nothing dey wey God no fit do.

Now Mary must answer. Think about wetin to say yes fit cost her. She don betroth, she never marry. People for Nazareth go talk. Joseph fit cancel di engagement. Her life fit become very hard. And yet Mary talk, See me, I be di Lord servant. Make e happen to me as you don talk. Na one of di bravest sentence for di whole Bible. Mary no understand everything. But she trust di One wey send di angel. And di angel comot from her presence.

Gabriel words, nothing dey wey God no fit do, for ring bell for anybody wey know di Scriptures. For di Greek translation of di Old Testament wey people dey use for Luke time, di words near well well to wetin God tell Abraham when Sarah laugh: anything dey wey too hard for di Lord? E be like say Luke dey point back on purpose. Di God wey give old Sarah son, and old Elizabeth son, now dey do something wey big pass through one young virgin for Nazareth.

You go find Mary question and answer for Luke chapter one, verse thirty-four reach thirty-eight. She ask how, she hear say nothing dey wey God no fit do, and she say yes. So see one question wey you go carry dey go. Something dey wey God dey ask from you, where you fit talk, like Mary, make e happen to me as you don talk?