Here’s a nice follow-on to yesterday’s blog contrasting Zechariah’s unbelief with Mary’s belief. And if you think about it, it shows that the folks in the Bible are real people with feelings just like ours. Note what Elizabeth said to Mary:

Great favor is upon you, for you have believed every word spoken to you from the Lord.” (Luke 1.45, Passion Translation)

In other words, “You believed, and you’re here talking to me. You’re not like my idiot husband who didn’t believe, and he has been mute for six months now!”

Again, what should we be believing God for? Things that seem impossible, but “Nothing is impossible with God!” (Luke 1.37)

Elisha said, “Listen! GOD’s word! The famine’s over. This time tomorrow food will be plentiful—a handful of meal for a shekel; two handfuls of grain for a shekel. The market at the city gate will be buzzing.” The attendant on whom the king leaned for support said to the Holy Man, “You expect us to believe that? Trapdoors opening in the sky and food tumbling out?” “You’ll watch it with your own eyes,” he said, “but you will not eat so much as a mouthful!” (2 Kings 7.1, 2, MSG – a story of unbelief. Check it all out: 2 Kings 6.24 – 7.20)