“A woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!" But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"” Luke 11:27, 28
It is fondly imagined by some that it must have involved very special privileges to have been the mother of our Lord, because they supposed that she had the benefit of looking into his very heart in a way in which we cannot hope to do. There may be an appearance of plausibility in the supposition, but not much. We do not know that Mary knew more than others; what she did know she did well to lay up in her heart; but she does not appear from anything we read in the Evangelists to have been a better-instructed believer than any other of Christ’s disciples. All that she knew we also may discover. Do you wonder that we should say so? Here is a text to prove it: “The secret of the LORD is for those who fear Him, And He will make them know His covenant.” Remember the Master’s words—“No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.” So blessedly does this Divine Revealer of secrets tell us his heart, that he holds back nothing which is profitable to us; his own assurance is, “If it were not so, I would have told you.” Does he not this day manifest himself to us as he does not to the world? It is even so; and therefore we will not ignorantly cry out, “Blessed is the womb that bore you,” but we will intelligently bless God that, having heard the Word and kept it, we have firstly as true a communion with the Saviour as the Virgin had, and secondly as true an acquaintance with the secrets of his heart as she can be supposed to have obtained. Happy soul to be thus privileged!
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