Thought #14 — A new blood in your veins

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Thought #14 — A new blood in your veins Posted: 22 Jun 2014 08:06 PM PDT   Part of the “40 Thoughts of Jesus” series - know more about it.   Who are My mother and My brothers? (…)Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother. Mark 3.33-35 Despite being born of Mary and having brothers and sisters, this human kinship He had with them did not guarantee their kinship with God. Notice how misguided are those who’ve learned to pray to the Virgin Mary as their intercessor before Jesus. Mary was a virgin before she gave birth to Jesus, but after she married Joseph she had four other sons and at least two daughters (Matthew 13:55,56). How can a mother of six children remain a virgin? In the thought above, Jesus made sure not to treat His mother or His brothers with any kind of favoritism. Instead, He put those who do God’s will before them. To do the will of God’s is more powerful than the blood that runs in your veins. If you do the will of the Father, it doesn’t matter if your blood is from a noble or poor family. It doesn’t matter if you were born an illegitimate child or from a father that was present. It does not matter if the color of your skin is white, black, yellow or red. It doesn’t matter if you come from a good or bad background. If you do the will of God, that will make you a brother, sister, mother and a child of God! He will be your new family! There are those who brag about having some rich or famous relative. You see that all the time. “So-and-so, the boyfriend of the sister-in-law of the sister of that famous guy’s neighbor.” Yes, there are people who brag even about something like this. But those who do the will of God are relatives of Jesus. Do you want a new Family? Application: Do God’s will and do not trust or distrust your family background. Do you sometimes feel ashamed of the family you came from? Do you bring yourself down or feel less than, underprivileged because of that? Or, the other way around: Do you brag about and lean on the fact that you came from a well-to-do family? Do you look for people who are supposedly “better” than you to associate with so you can feel better about yourself? Leave your comment.