"IN HER HEART!"

Luke 2:46-51                       (ESV)
"46 After three days they found HIM in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions.
47 And all who heard HIM were amazed at HIS understanding and HIS answers.
48 And when HIS parents saw HIM, they were astonished. And HIS mother said to him, "SON, why have YOU treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress."
49 And HE said to them, "Why were you looking for ME? Did you not know that I must be in MY FATHER's house?"
50 And they did not understand the saying that HE spoke to them.
51 And HE went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And HIS mother treasured up all these things "IN HER HEART"."



Gospel comedian Mark Lowry once said that if anyone knew that JESUS was born of a virgin, it was Mary!  There was no doubt Mary would experience a lot of grief and ridicule from being a pregnant teenager over 2,000 years ago.  However n Luke 1:38 "And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant of the LORD; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her."  When Mary gave birth to JESUS in Luke 2:19 scripture records that Mary "treasured up all these things "IN HER HEART".   Now , once again, she is treasuring "up all these things in her heart (Luke 2:51)!  What was she "treasuring up "IN HER HEART" that she wasn't sharing with others?  Why do you think she didn't share with the world that she was the mother of the Savior of the whole world?

In the above passage of scripture, Mary and Joseph had unknowingly left JESUS in Jerusalem at the temple.  JESUS was twelve years old and it wasn't unheard of for the mother to think that the father would be looking after a child, and vice versa.  JESUS had been a part of the family for years and I'm sure that Mary had become a little "used to" just being a "mom"?  But when she said "Behold, your father and I have been searching for you in great distress", JESUS responded "Did you not know that I must be in MY FATHER's house?"  Notice the words "your father" are not capitalized in the question Mary raised, but the ARE capitalized in the Divine response from JESUS.  Verse 50 is SO important to grasp, "they did not understand the saying that HE spoke to them."

The HOLY SPIRIT can reveal things to us sometimes when we aren't expecting to SEE them.  When we have these "ah-hah" moments, it causes me to seemingly pull over and stop and contemplate them.  I'm sure that when Mary "treasured up all these things "IN HER HEART" in the scriptures above she was being moved by the SPIRIT to let her words be few.  Sometimes GOD doesn't need me messing up what HE is trying to do.  It has taken me MOST of my life to SEE this.  When GOD is changing a HEART, HE may not need me to say anything!   HE led Mary to treasure these things "IN HER HEART", and HE may need me to do the same?!?!?