Luke 1:39-47
Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said,, "Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled."
"The Lord is with thee" meaning the God of her fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Joseph, of David is with her. She must respond to Gabriel, the able-bodied one, the hero of God, the angel who stands before God. She is alone in her response, And her only support is the narrow will of God, and her readiness to believe, and her readiness to obey.
When my grandson Tucker was a babe in arms (say 8 or 9 months), my daughter Jessica his mother was standing next to me. Tucker was wearing corduroy overalls and I was wearing a corduroy sports jacket. Tucker took his overall cloth between his forefinger and thumb, rubbed it and then looked at me, telling me that he was wearing the same cloth as I. Communication of an abstract thought by one who could not speak; so too John, a babe in his mother's womb leaped for joy when he heard Mary's greeting. John "the forerunner" prophesying Jesus; the word "Jesus" means "God saves".
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