Mary's song in Luke 1:46-55, known as the Magnificat, is a powerful declaration of God's favor toward the humble and lowly. Zack reflects on the revolutionary nature of this song—and its exemplifying one of the major notes found throughout almost every page of Scripture. But this note—God's deep love for the marginalized—is not (just) a claim about God or an ethical imperative for us. Instead, it is one of many ways to articulate the Gospel itself. We have been Freed-From the world's givens of accumulation, self-securing, and resulting inequalities and Freed-For sharing God's own heart of putting others ahead of oneself.
