Sacred Moments With Christ预览

To ponder is to consider carefully. It’s not forgetting or moving on so quickly that what you have beheld is lost in the flurry.

It’s slowing down, thinking deeply. Again, it’s internal. It happens in the heart. Look at Psalm 4:4,

“...ponder in your own hearts on your beds, and be silent.”

Notice where the pondering happens—in the heart. Which, honestly, seems a bit deeper than the mind.

I don’t know about you, but there are a lot of times I’d rather keep the pondering in my head. It doesn’t require as much emotion to maneuver. Let it go to my heart, and then I begin to feel something, right?

But I believe it’s in the heart where we can truly process. We take something and let it sit with us.

Mary took what she was seeing and hearing, and she really considered it. And so we see Mary lived in the tension of both knowing who Jesus was and having some mystery about it.

Each of you, you know who Jesus is, right? You’ve made this proclamation to follow him, I hope. But you also don’t have it all figured out. There’s some mystery, which I think is good.

Proverbs says it’s the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to find it out.

There is mystery, but it is our endeavor to press in. We don’t go as far as deconstructing our whole faith, but within the boundaries of God’s Word, we bring every weighty matter to him.

How can you cultivate a reflection and pondering of Christ in your heart throughout your day in a way that draws you closer to him?