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“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!
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“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!
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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