Ponder the Treasure
Advent Day 20
Luke 2:19 But Mary
treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
I’VE often pictured Mary looking at her baby and considering
all the events that have lead her to this moment. Or would she have been
thinking about his future—and her future. Would she be thinking about her
family’s future and her people’s future?
I think she thought of all these things.
As Luke uses the
word “treasure” it indicates to us that Mary is putting great value on what God
is doing. God came to her, a virgin, to fulfill prophecy, and he guided her to
the miracle of Elizabeth’s pregnancy. God had led Joseph to accept a pregnant
bride, and he took his family to this manger this night with the glory of the
Lord all around.
Putting these
events together, she most assuredly knew there would be many more miracles to
come. She, of faith, would treasure God’s choosing her and treasure his plan
for her future and Israel’s future. I believe she was that night emotionally
and spiritually preparing herself for a life that would witness the Savior of
the world growing into manhood. She knew that each day each moment as she gazed
upon this child that she would ponder what God had done. And she would
anticipate what God would do.
That is the
message of Advent. Open your eyes, heart, mind and soul to treasure and ponder
the miracles of life God has given you in his Son the Savior. Anticipate the
eternal gift of life God offers to you in his Son the King.
Pause and Consider: to treasure is to value.
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