FAR TOO TRUE.
I’ve never had blood children . . . but have had to sacrifice an extremely close emotional son or two. Horrendous.
However . . . I came into the world naked and will leave the same way. Nothing I’ve had to offer My Lord and God was inherently mine. Nothing was of my own creation or goodness. Anything I’ve offered God Almighty has been a RETURNed blessing that was His to begin with.
Mary’s “offering” was only her “REASONABLE SERVICE.”
She was obedient. Praise God. Her obedience was done.
Did she clutch Him to her as a controllable or even manipulatable possession?
No way.
He made clear HIS perspective when he evidently refused to go out to His Mother AND BROTHERS when they came to see him that time—noting that those who believed Him and The Father were his mother and brothers.
It still boggles my mind that such a GLARINGLY SIGNIFICANT SCRIPTURE FOR THAT CULTURE is missed, denied, rationalized into nothing etc. by folks most needing to receive it into their hearts.
I wonder how many billions of hours have been spent praying to Mary . . . robbing God of HIS RIGHTFUL FOCUS in the hearts, schedules and prayers of those who are supposedly putting HIM FIRST.
5750, well-spoken, Quix.
Exactly...The staggering number of prayers God never heard...