Jesus offers a great gift, a great comfort and a great challenge in today's short Gospel Passage: Luke 11: 27-28). He responds to the woman who shouts her admiration for him and the mother who bore and nursed him with the poignant: "Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and Observe it." That's us, we hope. We too can share the blessing Jesus affirms his mother enjoys if we hear to the word of God and observe it. The hearing must be a listening, an applying of what we hear to our lives; an absorption of it, a digesting of it, and, as Jesus says, an observing of it. It can't just be words that bounce off our ear drums without having an effect in our behavior. We, as did the woman, look up to Mary and admire her, but in putting God's Word into practice, we can inspire and win the admiration of others by modeling for them what God is saying to all of us. What a blessed mission; how blessed we are!
Bro. Rene
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