Luke 2:18-20 KJV
18 And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds.
19 But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart.
20 And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.

Do we dwell on the things of God? Everyone has good and bad memories.Things that are hidden in our hearts and minds only we know what is there. God knows how to heal the bad and bring to mind all the good. I got thinking on this do we think or meditate on the work God is doing in our life as well as the work God is doing in the world around us that we can see. Truthfully probably not enough, because if we did we fight harder to do the perfect will of God to see the world around us change for the glory of God.

If we ponder the words of faith to the point we grasp the truth of the word do we take it to heart those thing God by his Spirit reveals to us. As a child I believed ministry was only about mission work, but that where most begin in ministry. They learn to live and help another with compassion and the aid of God's Spirit. Yet ministry goes beyond that it learning to help another to learn to meditate on the things of God. To remember what God has done in your personal life. To build others up in the knowledge of the things of God is doing in their own life and the world around them.

To ponder to meditate on the spiritual events in one's life, who meditated? Isaac was in the field meditating when his bride arrived. Mary ponder on all the things she seen and heard before and after conception of Jesus as well as time of her son's birth and the visitations of shepherds and wise men and their words spoken to her about Jesus. This would not be the last time she thought on Jesus unique birth, or the fact she was mother of her Lord. She would watch her son grow up, minister to the rich and poor. She see her son go to the cross, and she see him after he was risen from the grave.

Many parents love seeing and hraring about the events in their children lives but Jesus was no ordinary baby. Mary carried her son 9 months, we can carry Christ from the day of our spiritual birth through eternity. Yet we may be pondering less on Jesus then his mother does. It is easy to take what we have for granted and not thank God for salvation because we get entangled in and by the world around us. Testifying about God's work in one's life can be a simple thank you God.

When hear my husband praising God it bless me especially unprompted by me. Couples need to thank God and testify together. Yet that personal time wirh God must come first in one's life.

Dear Heavenly Father teach us to remember your works and to praise you. In Jesus precipus name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: Psalm 77:11-13 KJV
11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?