Luke 11:27-28

Help me to hear you Holy Spirit. Help me to follow what You allow me to see. 

Open the eyes of my heart Lord! I want to see You in everything I do.

An echo of what Mary, the mother of Jesus, has already articulated about her own role. As Jesus is moving toward His death, He states the inverse of the woman’s cry, pronouncing that someday those who are childless will be called blessed. True blessedness, according to Jesus, is found in obedience to God’s revelation. Faithlife Bible.

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. 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 Bible.

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!

Psalm 1:1 | Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;

Psalm 1:2 | But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And in His law he meditates day and night.

Psalm 112:1 | Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, Who delights greatly in His commandments.

Psalm 119:1 | Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the LORD!

James 1:25 | 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.