“Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart” (Luke 2:15-19)

These insightful verses remind us of many great things that happened so quickly and in succession, and they gift us with a desirable attitude to imbibe from Mary. An angel sent from the Lord had visited some shepherds “abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night” (Luke 2:8). Upon the word of the Lord, these men went to “see this thing which is come to pass” saying “which the Lord hath made known unto us.” They also began to spread the news of what they saw. Some people ‘wondered’ at the things they heard and saw, but Mary did something else. She ‘kept all these things’ and ‘pondered’ over them. That’s a remarkable difference. Again (and later) in Luke 2:43-51, when Jesus had stayed back in Jerusalem unknown to His parents, and they found Him, He spoke words they didn’t understand but “his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.”

Sometimes, we are taken up only by wonders or signs, but even more we need to keep His words and ponder over them. Hence, in John 2, at the wedding feast of Cana, when the wine was exhausted, Mary, without a hesitation, turned to Jesus! "May the words of Christ dwell in us richly!" (Colossians 3:16). Amen.

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