A short passage but one that carries a lot of weight. A woman shouting to Jesus in the crowd- blessed be your mother who bore you! Is this not a praise we still see among certain religions today. Wanting to worship Mary and give her special praise rather than the One whom she bore, the only one who has power over sin and death?!
And the Lord responds, gently but with a massive amount of truth and correction, "Blessed rather are those who hear the Word of God and keep it!"
How easy is it to fall into the the trappings of religion? Or of praising those who seem to do it well? Or even yet to long to have it together or have faith like...fill in the blank. We can so quickly lose sight of God and His Word and replace it with earthly replicas, idols and works. But the Lord, he reminds the woman, and all of us, blessed are those who hear the Word of God.
Hearing is active. It is not simply glancing at our Bibles and checking something off, or showing up on Sunday but then tuning out the Pastor so we can make our weekly to-do lists in our heads. It is an active participation, where we are hearing, reading, meditating on, listening too and being taught the Word in a way that we treasure it in our hearts and it transforms us.
How can you be a better hearer today?
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