More important than the life that brought Him into this world are those who hear the Word made flesh and heed His message to love God above anything and anyone and to love others as much as you do yourself.
When you lift up others in love you are exalting God.
The woman offered praise for Jesus’ mother. Though Jesus always honored Mary, He commented carefully on the woman’s blessing to keep the focus on the word of God.
Luke 11:27-28
27 And it happened, as He spoke these things, that a certain woman from the crowd raised her voice and said to Him, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and the breasts which nursed You!”
28 But He said, “More than that, blessed are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”
28 And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”
Luke 1:28
Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who delights greatly in His commandments.
Psalm 112:1
2Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!
Psalm 119:2
18Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Isaiah 48:18
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, r‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
Matthew 7:21
21 But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
Luke 8:21
25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:25
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