Your Body Has Been Made

In hope (with, for, and through Luke 1:26-38).

Your Body Has Been Made

By Mark Rico

O favored one, the midday sun will fade
before the radiance of this, your son
and heaven’s heir. Before He is arrayed
with glory, He will share the story spun
into our frail cloth—the one begun
outside of time and finished through a tomb.
Ponder this: salvation has been won
without a fight, perfected by the bloom
of holiness that makes His home inside your womb.

Now lift your eyes! Your body has been made
the temple of the Lord, the mighty one
who wraps Himself in light. Be not afraid
of Him whose power garrisons the sun
on high. He plants your promise now where none
can see—a kingly Son who will assume
the burden David could not bear. Now done
is death, though for a while you walk in gloom.
At His rising, every heart will be illumed.

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