Let the instruction sink deeply into our hearts, that when the Spirit of God is working in souls all envy, strife, and jealousy are banished. Love then flows out unhinderedly, and humility is the fruit of love. Then, after describing the effect upon her of Mary’s salutation, she proclaimed a third character of blessedness. Mary was blessed as the object of God’s sovereign favor, she was blessed as the vessel for the incarnation of our Lord, and she was blessed on account of her faith—faith which surmounted all obstacles, and reposed upon the almighty power of God. Like Abraham, she staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but “received strength” in faith, giving glory to God. She had thus unfalteringly laid hold of God’s word, unhesitatingly concluding that what He had promised He would certainly perform. She honored God in this way, and now she was met with a divine assurance, through the lips of Elisabeth, that there should be a performance of those things which were told her from the Lord.