Evening, January 27

Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings

"But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart."

  Luke 2:19

   There was an exercise, on the part of this blessed woman, of three
   powers of her being: her memory--she kept all these things; her
   affections--she kept them in her heart; her intellect--she pondered
   them; so that memory, affection, and understanding, were all exercised
   about the things which she had heard. Beloved, remember what you have
   heard of your Lord Jesus, and what he has done for you; make your heart
   the golden pot of manna to preserve the memorial of the heavenly bread
   whereon you have fed in days gone by. Let your memory treasure up
   everything about Christ which you have either felt, or known, or
   believed, and then let your fond affections hold him fast for evermore.
   Love the person of your Lord! Bring forth the alabaster box of your
   heart, even though it be broken, and let all the precious ointment of
   your affection come streaming on his pierced feet. Let your intellect
   be exercised concerning the Lord Jesus. Meditate upon what you read:
   stop not at the surface; dive into the depths. Be not as the swallow
   which toucheth the brook with her wing, but as the fish which
   penetrates the lowest wave. Abide with your Lord: let him not be to you
   as a wayfaring man, that tarrieth for a night, but constrain him,
   saying, "Abide with us, for the day is far spent." Hold him, and do not
   let him go. The word "ponder," means to weigh. Make ready the balances
   of judgment. Oh, but where are the scales that can weigh the Lord
   Christ? "He taketh up the isles as a very little thing:"--who shall
   take him up? "He weigheth the mountains in scales"--in what scales
   shall we weigh him? Be it so, if your understanding cannot comprehend,
   let your affections apprehend; and if your spirit cannot compass the
   Lord Jesus in the grasp of understanding, let it embrace him in the
   arms of affection.