Seek God first and He will take care of the rest!
and what did Jesus command us to do? He commanded us to love god above all and our neighbors as much as we love ourselves!
Though Jesus always honored Mary, He commented carefully on the woman’s blessing to keep the focus on the word of God.
It is easy to allow traditional practices to take the place of the authority of the Scriptures. Jesus offers His blessing to those who respond concretely to God’s will as expressed in the Bible. NKJ Study Bible
Luke 11:27–28 (NKJV)
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!”
1 Praise the Lord! Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, Who delights greatly in His commandments.
Psalm 112:1
2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!
Psalm 119:2
17 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: “I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go.
Isaiah 48:17
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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