Reading: Romans 8:13-17
Reflective Thoughts
Adopted
We have become sons and daughters of the King. Those for whom the joy of adoption has burst through the agony of infertility know the depth of this statement. Those for whom a family has been given to overwhelm loneliness and isolation know the significance. Every part of who they were has now become enmeshed with the present and future of others with whom they share an identity forever. Every joy and every suffering from that family is now their joy and their suffering
Gospel writer Matthew in 12:46-50 tells of an event in which Jesus was teaching when his mother and brothers sent a request through the crowd to see Him. When He heard, He asked, “Who are my mother and brothers? Behold, everyone who does the will of my Father in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” Those whose focus and passion were on the “family business” were those who were His family.
They say that blood is thicker than water, meaning that family ties are stronger than any ties. Jesus’ blood makes that true for us. The question I must ask myself is, am I sharing in the joy and the suffering of the “family business”? Or am I living as if I only had someone else’s last name?