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But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.<\/em> How are you doing when it comes to pondering? Psalm 107:43 says, \u201cLet the one who is wise heed these things and ponder the loving deeds of the Lord\u201d (NIV). And Psalm 111:2 says, \u201cGreat are the works of the Lord; they are pondered by all who delight in them\u201d<\/p>\n The virgin Mary teaches us something about pondering. When Gabriel appeared to Mary, he told her things she could never have imagined or expected. God surprised her with a plan for her life beyond anything she had dreamed. She quickly trusted the message and didn\u2019t hesitate to obey the Lord\u2019s commands. As more information came to light, she pondered it all in her heart.<\/p>\n God often surprises us with twists and turns we don\u2019t expect. All of them are for our benefit and usefulness, but we have to ponder His ways and submit to them in faith and obedience. Proverbs 4:26 says, \u201cPonder the path of your feet, and let all your ways be established.\u201d<\/p>\n Take time right now to prayerfully ponder God\u2019s wonderful pathway for your life. (Jeremiah)<\/p>\n To strengthen faith we must hear God\u2019s Word and ponder God\u2019s doing, the marvelous works of God in our own day. (Hough)<\/em><\/p>\n __________________________________________<\/p>\n Ponder – give thought to, think about,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>reflect on,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>contemplate, <\/span><\/span>study, <\/span><\/span>meditate on. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Give thought every day to the wonders of God, things of God, and the grace, mercy, and love of God.\u00a0 As David said in Psalm 139 – This wonderful knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty; I am unable to reach it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n When time is spent “pondering God” our minds and hearts will come to a place of humbleness and worship, thanksgiving, and praise will come out. Time in God’s Word is where we find great things of God to ponder. Mysteries of creation, expected obedience, reward and punishment, grace, mercy, love, Prophecy, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, heaven, hell, anger, wrath, application, mighty and wonderous deeds, prayer, faith, fear, joy, peace beyond understanding, life, death, sin, holiness, justification, sanctification, repentance, sacrifice, redemption, reliance, trust, refuge, hope, etc…..<\/p>\n We think about a lot of stuff. Most of it is present-day living: family, job, finances, relationships, homes, school, politics, sports, social media, TV shows, or movies, health, fitness, etc…. Where is the pondering of God and things of God? It seems as though we give time to think about everything but Our Creator. Many people ponder the words of a song more than they do the Wonders of God. There are hymns and songs that are very precious to me and speak of the greatness of God. These should not replace time in God’s Word and pondering over it.\u00a0 Spend time there today and ponder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart. Luke 2:19 How are you doing when it comes to pondering? Psalm 107:43 says, \u201cLet the one who is wise heed these things and ponder the loving deeds of the Lord\u201d (NIV). And Psalm 111:2 says, \u201cGreat are the works of the … Continue reading “57.d. Luke 2:19”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-prayers"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194948,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194945\/revisions\/194948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prayingpint.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nLuke 2:19<\/strong><\/p>\n