Deafness may be not wanting to hear

Morning: Psalm 61, 62; Leviticus 16:20-34; Romans 12:1-21

Evening: Psalm 68:1-36; Luke 8:1-15

There’s a saying in the north of England: “... none so deaf as them that doesn’t want to hear.”  Many Biblical stories about Jesus’s followers are told by men, about men.  But, Luke relates, women also hear Jesus’s Good News, follow him as disciples and bear good fruit.  Even in his own strongly patriarchal culture, Jesus refuses to marginalize women.  Traditions that devalue women prefer to be obedient to the very culture that Jesus challenges while choosing to be deaf to his ways and words.  Jesus neither teaches nor applauds misogyny.