NOTES for Luk 1:37-38
These words are said at a very particular moment - the Annunciation, when the Angel asks the Virgin Mary to be the Mother of the Son of Man. It is exactly here that the Virgin Mary pronounces these words: "Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word", become the "turning point" in the relationships between God and man. The perplexity of the Virgin Mary on the way it should occur is resolved by the instruction of God's almighty word, and the Virgin Mary relies upon this word.
By word God created the world, by word He maintains it. This word is omnipotent …as long as it doesn’t encounter with human will. God's power is the power of love - abnegating power, love can seem powerless, when God addresses people century after century, addresses His word to people, and He uses no power. But the biblical history shows that this word is powerful: the humanity goes through its way, changing alliance to alliance, prophecy to prophecy by the influence of God's word. God Himself finally comes into the world not as a power, and also not as powerlessness, but as the Word in flesh.
How it is important that we accept this God's Powerful Word, and that we have hope in it. Jesus arises and lives in our heart, as in the stomach of the Nazarene Virgin, when God's love and our faith encounter.