Going on in Luke 11:27, a woman cried out something to the effect that, the mother of Jesus should be blessed because she made it possible for Him to be there on that particular day, preaching to the crowd. Jesus responded by saying that, as blessed as His mother was for doing that, we who hear His word and put it into practice, are equally blessed.
As I said before, I was raised in the Catholic church and Mary, the mother of Jesus is held in very high esteem, to say the least. I think that it is natural for us to think that Mary would be more loved by God because of her unique position as His earthly mother. After all, Mary is technically the very first person to (literally and figuratively) accept who Jesus is. Logic tells us that without someone of Mary’s character and belief system, you have no completed and Godly plan. Now, if God built human robots who did His bidding without thought, you could argue that Mary had no choice but to succumb to God’s plan. The reality is that God creates us (including Mary) to have a free will so as to accept or reject what we want. It is very likely that God gave more than Mary an opportunity to live for Him and was probably rejected just like He gives all mankind a chance to live for Him and faces the same amount of rejection.
We, like Mary had and have a choice in deciding what we will live for. It is those believers that Jesus said, (to paraphrase) “yes, my mother is a great person and should be blessed for what she has done for me in this life, but equally important are you, the believers in me through my word and who puts those words into practice”
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