Luke 2:19
But Mary treasured up all these things and pondered them in her heart.

Surely the shepherds told Mary and Joseph what the angels had said in order to explain why they were intruding on the couple with their baby. When they left they spread the story, and those who heard it were “astonished.”

Mary had a lot to think about as she gazed into the face of her tiny child. Gabriel had told her the little boy would reign forever; the shepherds reported the angel’s words; He is the Savior, Christ the Lord. As Mary held this tiny baby she must have wondered at all God was doing, and who her son would grow up to become.

Mary was treasuring, carefully storing away, all these things; such things as the following:
* What an angel had told Joseph,
* What Gabriel had told her,
* What her experience had been in Bethlehem,
* What the shepherds told her about the angels.

“She was putting them all together in her heart.”

Aside from the nativity narrative Scripture tells us little about Mary’s development in faith.

Nevertheless, such passages as John 2:5 and Acts 1:14 show that she became a worshiper of the One to whom, with respect to His human nature, she had given birth. Her prayerful “putting together” of the things she had experienced, seen, and heard, was blessed by God and in the course of time produced the result He had determined from eternity. I am sure, on Mary’s part there were missteps along the way, but the end was victory.

What have you treasured up in your heart for future reference?

I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.
Psalm 119:11