Today's Devotional Thought
December 10, 2010 by Rachel Piferi
Treasure & Ponder
Have you ever had anything happen to you that you really have no words to fully describe? Something that is so unbelievable, either good or bad, that even if you had the words, other people wouldn’t fully understand?
I can imagine that is how Mary must have felt as she carried and delivered her first born son, Jesus. Imagine for a second what it must have been like to be an unmarried teenaged girl who just gave birth to the Son of God. Imagine that. I mean, really imagine that.
Imagine holding Jesus in the wee hours of the night, just gazing at Him like all new mothers do. Imagine looking at Him and feeling so honored and yet, so inadequate to be the mother of God. Imagine being so grateful that Joseph decided to stay with her and not do what tradition and laws would have allowed him to do. Imagine wondering why God chose you out of all of the women in the history of the world to be the mother of the Savior. Imagine that.
I can see why, as everyone else was spreading the word of the birth of the Savior, that Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.
Do you have something in your life right now that you are experiencing that is too great, too amazing, too overwhelming, or even maybe too painful for anyone else to understand? Perhaps even, you feel alone because there is no one who can fully understand what you are feeling. You may not even have the words to explain it to anyone.
If you do, dear friends, then take solace in Mary’s experience and share your feelings with the Lord in prayer. The beauty of our relationship with God is that we don’t have to have the words to describe our most meaningful, amazing, painful, or overwhelming events. Instead, we can treasure them and ponder them in our heart and allow God to share in our emotions even when we don’t have the words to express it. And remember, as long as you have the Lord in your life, you are never alone.
December