Morning, June 24
Charles Spurgeon · Morning and Evening: Daily Readings
"A certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him,
Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast
sucked. But he said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of
God, and keep it."
Luke 11:27, 28
It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special
privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they supposed
that she had the benefit of looking into his very heart in a way in
which we cannot hope to do. There may be an appearance of plausibility
in the supposition, but not much. We do not know that Mary knew more
than others; what she did know she did well to lay up in her heart; but
she does not appear from anything we read in the Evangelists to have
been a better-instructed believer than any other of Christ's disciples.
All that she knew we also may discover. Do you wonder that we should
say so? Here is a text to prove it: "The secret of the Lord is with
them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant." Remember the
Master's words--"Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant
knoweth not what his Lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all
things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you." So
blessedly does this Divine Revealer of secrets tell us his heart, that
he keepeth back nothing which is profitable to us; his own assurance
is, "If it were not so, I would have told you." Doth he not this day
manifest himself unto us as he doth not unto the world? It is even so;
and therefore we will not ignorantly cry out, "Blessed is the womb that
bare thee," but we will intelligently bless God that, having heard the
Word and kept it, we have first of all as true a communion with the
Saviour as the Virgin had, and in the second place as true an
acquaintance with the secrets of his heart as she can be supposed to
have obtained. Happy soul to be thus privileged!