How Can This Be?

 

 

How can this be

Seeing I know not a man?

This was Mary’s question

Being unaware of the plan?

 

How can I know this

For I am an old man?

Zachariah was here too

When told of the plan?

 

Abraham and Sarah

Manoah and his wife:

All puzzled by a first child

Coming into their life.

 

The age of child bearing

Long had passed

With the exception of Mary;

Note what she asked.

 

 

How can this be

Seeing I know not a man?

Upon this hangs Salvation:

God’s redemptive plan.

 

A virgin shall bring forth,

How can this be?

Let us go to Bethlehem

And perhaps we will see.

 

The shepherds went

Being the first to do so

And they spread the news

As we now know.

 

That Holy seed in Mary

Was of the Holy Spirit,

This is recorded, my friend

In the Holy Writ.

 

It is an explanation of fact

Not a theory to please,

And that’s why scientists today

Can find no ease.

 

 

It is not a testable case

And thus, not observable

And so, they conclude

It is not possible.

 

How can this be?

They too are still asking

While the simple grasp it

With faith everlasting.

 

It is a question of fact

Meaning, it has actually been:

It is a fact of history;

Bethlehem’s the scene.

 

So, while we may ask,

How can this be,

It is absolutely necessary

We accept its veracity.

 

For salvation is dependent

On its simple acceptance,

Mixed with saving faith

And true repentance.

 

 

A virgin did bring forth

Having known no man,

This was Almighty God’s doing:

His Divine Plan.

 

It is older than time

Don’t ask me to explain,

I stick with God’s Revelation

Which He swore by His name.

 

For there is none greater

By which He can swear

Than by the I AM THAT I AM

And to me, that is clear.

 

Stewart Russell © December 28, 2021