The Son Is Conceived

Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”

And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.  Luke 1:34-35

This did not happen in the usual way, as Mary indicates by her question. Which could tend to make one a bit curious as to the means and methods employed in the accomplishment of the task at hand. However, this idle curiosity may never be satisfied. Ya know, a little privacy for the Holy Spirit and the young lady, please! 

When it comes to matters of faith, we don't always get to know how the thing is or was done. A man was born with eyes that did not provide sight. Jesus gave the man sight without transplants or surgeries or anything that we can see in the Bible. In another case there was spit and mud involved in the sight restoration. Imagine the shock and outrage if an eye doctor tried that method later today! And yet in both cases we do not know the mechanism or means by which our Lord's healing worked. The holy mud? That I believe was not needed by Jesus, but as a little boost to the blind man's faith. Sort of like the little assurance Mary needed as Gabriel told her, the Lord will take care of it. 

Faith, it's what makes a believer out of us!

Bucky