Celebrate the Lord: Why Mary’s Song Must Become Our Song

 “And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour…” (Luke 1:46-47 KJV)


When the angel Gabriel left, Mary didn’t post a pregnancy announcement on social media. She didn’t call a crisis hotline. She didn’t even wait until the danger of Herod, the Great was past. The moment the Holy Ghost made the promise real in her heart, she burst into one of the most explosive celebrations of God in all of Scripture—the Magnificat.



If a teenage Jewish girl facing scandal, shame, and possible death could magnify the Lord like that, how much more ought blood-bought, born-again, Bible-believing Christians celebrate Him today?


1. Celebrate Him for Who He Is—Holy, Holy, Holy  

Mary didn’t start with her feelings; she started with His character: “Holy is His name.” The same refrain thunders around the throne right now (Rev. 4:8). God has not changed. Culture has. Politics have. Your circumstances have. But “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever” (Heb. 13:8). If the angels never get bored praising His holiness, we have no excuse for half-hearted worship on Sunday morning.


 2. Celebrate Him for What He Has Done—He Saved Us While We Were Yet Sinners  

Mary called Him “God my Saviour” because she knew she needed one. The idea that Mary was sinless is Roman Catholic tradition, not Scripture. Romans 3:23 includes her: “All have sinned.” But Romans 5:8 includes her—and you—“Christ died for us.” If you have repented and believed the gospel, you are justified, sanctified, and one day will be glorified. There is therefore NOW no condemnation! That’s not a suggestion to rejoice; that’s a command (Phil. 4:4).


3. Celebrate Him for How He Works—He Loves to Flip the World’s Script  

- He scatters the proud (Lucifer, Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar, and every modern celebrity who shakes his fist at heaven).  

- He topples kings and lifts up nobodies (see Haman hanged on his own gallows while Mordecai rides the king’s horse).  

- He fills the hungry and sends the rich away empty (remember Lazarus comforted and the rich man in torment?).  

God has been doing this for 4,000 years of recorded history, and He hasn’t retired. The world says, “Climb the ladder.” God says, “I will exalt the humble” (1 Pet. 5:6). The world says, “Promote yourself.” God says, “He that exalteth himself shall be abased.” If you feel small, weak, overlooked—good! You’re exactly the kind of vessel God delights to fill with resurrection power (2 Cor. 4:7).


4. Celebrate Him for His Unbreakable Word—Every Promise Is Yes in Christ  

Mary closed her song with covenant language: “He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy; as he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.” Paul tells us that ultimate “seed” is Christ (Gal. 3:16), and if you are in Christ, you are Abraham’s seed and “heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:29). Not one of the “exceeding great and precious promises” will fail (2 Pet. 1:4). Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will never pass away (Matt. 24:35).


So What Are We Waiting For?

We have better promises than Mary did. We have the finished work of the cross, the empty tomb, the enthroned Christ, and the indwelling Holy Spirit. We have the completed canon of Scripture. We live on this side of Pentecost.


Yet too many of us sing like we’re at a funeral instead of a victory celebration.


Put away the murmuring. Put away fear of man. Put away love of this present evil world. Open your Bible, lift your hands, and let your soul magnify the Lord!


He is worthy.  

He has saved you.  

He is coming again.


Let the redeemed of the LORD say so!


**My soul doth magnify the Lord,  

And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour!**


Now go live like it.


Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

DMMC 

12-1-25

Location: Peru, IN 46970, USA

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