You are Family

Now that I’ve risked making YOU feel like YOU are unimportant, let me correct back to who YOU are that God would send Jesus as payment for your sins. 

He loves you and in Christ, you are family.  This love is powerful and salvific.

What kind of love is that? Scripture says in 1 John 3:1 “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!”

Any of us who have children know they are not carbon-copies of each other.  They are not clones.  They aren’t even similar in looks or temperament in many cases.  Not even twins are fully identical in every way. But each child is fully family. By the grace of God, we are all adopted children, loved as family!

Setting aside the bad case examples for a moment…parents, imperfect though we are, still love our children because they are our children.  Sometimes, parents can acknowledge that they don’t like a particular tantrum or action, yet good parents (and God is the best!) love our kids.

For this reason, each person–in Christ–can have a sense of belonging to something greater than self…we are family.

In Galatians 6: 9-10, it says, “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.”

You are important as a member of this family, of Christ’s Church.

Thank You, Father, that You love us, called us into Your family, Your Church!  What a privilege that just as we do not choose our birth families, we did not choose ourselves to be in Your Church.  Your grace alone accomplishes this act of love.  May we respond with hearts of gratitude always.  In Jesus’ Name and for His glory.  Amen.