“The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.”

I’ve been struggling on what to write today with it being the 50th remembrance of the assassination of President Kennedy. Instead of creating something new, I am going to begin with quoting today’s “Daily Bread” devotion as I thought it was so good that it deserves the extra reading.

“The assassination of US President John F. Kennedy stunned people around the globe 50 years ago today. The day after the shooting, an article in The Times (London) spoke of the reverberations being felt throughout world financial markets. It carried the headline, ‘All Other Events Overshadowed by US Tragedy.’ 

There are times in our lives when a death, a tragedy, or a sudden turn of events eclipses everything else. It happened to an unmarried young woman who was told that she would become the mother of the promised Messiah, God’s Son.  When she asked how this could happen, the angel Gabriel said, ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you.”

When we think of being overshadowed, we many times think of terrible events like what we remember today.  But what God’s Word tells us in the birth of Jesus is that He and the Holy Spirit’s overshadowing can also bring glorious and wondrous things to our lives. The question in our own lives is whether we will allow His light into our darkest places and moments so that He may shine in and through us?

Reference: Luke 1:26-38 (New Living Translation)