Ponderings

 

Chapter 25 Ponderings

From Other Little Ships

"But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart." Luke 2:19

What have you done during the holidays?

Where did you go? What did you see?

Sights. Sounds. Smells. Tastes.

Experiences. Things to treasure and things to ponder.

No doubt you've been assailed or even almost overwhelmed. But you can't hold a candle to Mary.

She had enough to reflect upon, sort, collate, mull and consider for a lifetime. An eternity. Head spinning, heart full. Overflowing.

Do we think that we understand what happened in that manger in Bethlehem? We have a more complete revelation than Mary.

We are greater theologians. We have commentaries, dictionaries, lexicons, and encyclopedias. We live in the modern era of technological and mechanical miracles but I don't think we comprehend the first Christmas any more than Mary.

We live in an age when there are numerous religions and belief systems that have no difficulty imagining man becoming a god . . . . but find it beyond belief that GOD could become a man. That God WOULD become a man. That God DID become a man.

Ponder that.

But don't make a mistake . . . whatever you conclude must be the basis for decision. Conviction. Not mere philosophy or religion. The manger was preliminary to the cross.

Mary wasn't just treasuring memories for her scrapbook. This wasn't just a singular Kodak moment. What she had witnessed was not an amazing end to be contemplated but a divine means inaugurated.

She was just beginning the process of making up her mind about whom she held in her arms. And if He was really whom she thought . . . it would change the rest of her life more than it already had the first.

MORE THAN IT ALREADY HAD!

Ponder that.