IMITATE THEIR FAITH/MARY - "A LONG SWORD WILL RUN THROUGH YOU"

 Was Mary's faith in Jesus rewarded? Jehovah never fails to reward faith, and surely Mary's case was bnot exception.  (Hebrews 11:6) Just imagine what it was like for her to hear her son speak or to hear reports of his sermons from others who heard him firsthand.

In her son's illustrations, did Mary detect some echoes of Jesus' childhood as he was growing up in Nazareth?  When Jesus spoke of a woman sweeping her house  to find a lost coin, grinding flour for bread, or lighting a lamp and setting it atop    a stand, did Mary think of that little boy who had been at her side as she carried such tasks?  (Luke 11:33; 15:8,9: 17:35) When Jesus sais that is yoke was kingdly and his load light, did Mary think back on some golden afternoon long ago when she watched Jesus teach  a young Jesus how to make and shape a  yoke with care so that an animal could bear it in comfort! (Matthew 11:30) Surel Mary found immense satisfaction in contemplating the privilege that Jehovah had given her in life-that of  help to raise and train the son who would come to be the Messiah. She must have found great unique joy in listening to Jesus, the greatest of human  teachers, who took such commonplace obejects and scenes and drew from them  the most profound of lessons!

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