Dream.

Dream. During the holidays, most of us spend time feasting.

It's rare that anyone leaves these gatherings looking for more food.

But what about when we're spiritually hungry?

Where can the lost and the lonely and the restless find satisfaction?

Today on Truth for Life weekend,

Alastairbeg examines Mary's Song of Praise

for the answer to the deepest longings of our hearts.

Well, I almost hate to say turn to Luke Luke chapter 1, because I'm going to do precious little with it to tell you the truth,

but you should probably have it open, at least to see that I have chosen for our text this morning,

not even a verse, but just a piece of a verse, and the verse is 53,

and the phrase which we're going to consider in a somewhat topical manner is he has filled the hungry with good things. He has filled the hungry with good things.

Now, if I were to guess the one thing that none of us is suffering from this morning after the week that we have spent is hunger.

And yet, during the past few days, you, like me, will have heard these statements,

or you will have made them, people saying in welcoming somebody to their home, I hope you

have brought your appetite with you. Or, anybody hungry? Or, I couldn't eat another thing.

Or, so where is everyone on the hunger scale right now?

These are the kind of things that have been permeating my existence in a quite wonderful and enjoyable way.

In each case, the question or statement is in direct relationship, of course,

to physical hunger. And that clearly is not on the mind of Mary here in this song, that she sings.

The circumstances that give rise to it are enough to stir our hearts and at the same time to stretch

our minds, because it is the annunciation that Mary will be the mother of the Messiah,

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