Ponder the Things of Jesus
19 But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
51 And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.
Mary was a thinker. When she saw something that intrigued her, she would ponder. The Greek word in this verses for ponder, according to Vine is:
(Vine's Complete Expository Dictionary) sumballo (συμβάλλω, 4820), lit., “to throw together” (sun, “with,” ballo, “to throw”), is used of “conversation, to discourse or consult together, confer, ...”.
When we “ponder” we take the events we are seeing and toss them about in our mind. The Hebrew word for “ponder” in the OT, according to Vine is:
h6424. פָּלַס p̱âlas; a primitive root; properly, to roll flat, i.e. prepare (a road); also to revolve, i.e. weigh (mentally): — make, ponder, weigh.
The Hebrews thought of “pondering” as laying the thoughts in your head flat. Perhaps the phrase, “level headed” comes from this concept. The point we see in Mary’s life is that she took time to consider and weigh out the things of Jesus. She didn’t just past by them. She didn’t just post the things of her son on social media and let others ponder them. She pondered them. She considered what was happening to Jesus and with Jesus and what it must have meant as compared to what God told her earlier:
31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.”
We have to remember that this is her frame work for these events that unfolding in front of her. We ought to take time to ponder the events in our lives as they compare to the engagement of God’s kingdom. We tend to focus on this world through the eyes of this world. We need to be more focused on the things of this world through the eyes of Christ and His kingdom. This kingdom, that we live in, will soon be gone. But, as we ponder this life we can put the events and situations we see in the eyes of God’s Kingdom of which Jesus reigns forever. Ponder this world through the eyes of Jesus.
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