Luke 11:27, 28

It is naively imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they assumed that she had the benefit of looking into his very heart in a way we cannot hope to do. This supposition may appear plausible, but it has little basis.

We do not know that Mary knew more than others; what she did know, she did well to treasure in her heart. However, from what we read in the Gospels, she does not appear 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 this? 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 keeps back nothing profitable to us. His own assurance is, If it were not so, I would have told you. Does he not this day manifest himself to us as he does not to the world?

It is indeed 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 second, as true an acquaintance with the secrets of his heart as she can be supposed to have obtained. Happy soul to be thus privileged!