Read: Luke 8-9
Marked: Luke 8:21, He replied, “My mother and brothers are those who hear God’s word and put it into practice.”
Jesus had earlier told the parable of the sower in which some seed fell by the wayside, other seed fell on rock, and some fell among thorns, but some fell on good soil.
In every instance, the seed, the Word of God, was presented to people, but “hearing they did not hear”. Some let the devil, or others, take away the Word out of their hearts. Others do nothing with the Word, no consideration or meditation, so the Word caused no change in them.
Then there are those who hear the Word, but life consumes them and they forget what they’ve heard. Jesus said, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
We mustn’t simply listen to God’s Word, we must hear it. We must attend to it, to consider what it is and what’s been said. In the hearing we must be doers, applying the Word in our lives.