Conceived by the Holy Spirit

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

The conception of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary was a stunning, spectacular, unique miracle, the greatest act of God since the creation of the world. Consider:

God became a man and

A man became God

The Creator became a creature

Eternity entered into time

The infinite became finite

Spirit joined with matter

Limitless power took on little strength

The march of death was stopped by the coming of endless life

The pervasive, inexorable stain of sin was stopped for one crucial birth, that it might be decisively defeated at the Cross and Resurrection.

For the first time since the Fall of Adam, a human being came into this world completely holy, totally consecrated to God, and equipped to reverse the effects of original sin.

The Spirit who hovered over the waters at Creation, moved within Mary to perform something that only God could do.

Nothing less than a new creation took place in the body of a young Jewish woman.

That same Holy Spirit has been “poured out on [believers] abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior” (Titus 3:6).