Luke 8:19-21
I
have been baffled by these verses for so long.
Why wouldn’t Jesus split the crowd as God did the Red Sea and bring his
mother and brothers to the front of the line, next to him? Was he being disrespectful of his family and
their feelings? Honestly, these
scriptures have always bothered me, mostly because I just didn’t understand the
point Jesus was trying to make here. But
now I finally get it! It is not really
about his mother and brothers, he is not speaking anything against them, but
letting us know just how much he loves each of us---he loves us just as much as
he loves his blood-born family. How
powerful these 3 verses are to the child of God! When Jesus shed his blood on that cross, that
blood was shed in order for us to be saved, but it is really so much more than
that. His lose of blood was for our
gain, each drop was for each of us, it was for me! He not only made a way for me to be saved and
live with him in eternity, he did it so that I could become part of his
family. He did it for me, because he
wanted me in his bloodline! And what a bloodline to belong to, as a child of God, we belong to the creator of the universe---now it doesn't get any better than that! I don’t
about you, but this is blowing me away this morning---once again I am in awe of
my Father, who truly loves me more than I will ever be able to comprehend and I am so excited to be in the ultimate bloodline!
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