Thought for the Week: Cooperation

God's complex "Plan of Salvation" often has human cooperation. Sometimes those humans do not understand it. I expect Isaiah did not understand what it meant as he wrote, "A virgin shall conceive and bear a Son." Micah probably did not understand, "... Bethlehem...out of thee shall come One to rule my people..." either. Zachariah and Elizabeth likely did not understand why God had not answered their prayers for years and now would provide them with child during old age. Mary likely did not understand much of what the Angel Gabriel told her but she willingly said, "Behold, the handmaid of the...