Then Mary said, “Here am I, the servant of the Lord; let it be with me according to your word.” Luke 1:38 Mary, a virgin, is confronted with a baffling mystery.… She will conceive a child without a human father, and that child will be God. She does not ask herself if she is strong enough or smart enough or good enough to do what the angel proposed. That would only lead to discouragement. She simply says yes; she allows God to decide everything, to arrange everything.