Mary: Pondering and Treasuring.

19 But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart.
—Luke 2:19

Resolved: To Ponder and Treasure Christ and His Word

On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. —Psalm 145:5

I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old. I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds.
—Psalm 77:11-12

“If you don’t do both these things - ponder and treasure the Word of God - you will not truly hear the message. Your ears will hear it but not your mind and heart. It won’t sink in, comfort, convict, or change you.”
—Timothy Keller, Hidden Christmas

Read The Bible…

1. Read with an earnest desire to understand it.
2. Read with simple childlike faith and humility.
3. Read with a spirit of obedience and self-application.
4. Read Scripture every day.

The Shepherds: Returned, Glorifying and Praising God.

Resolved: To Praise God and Glorify Him By Living In The Gospel Wherever He Has Placed Us.

[20] And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all they had heard and seen, as it had been told them.
—Luke 2:8-20

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; —2 Corinthians 4:7-9