Showing posts with label God's intention and ability to make us his beloved family.. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God's intention and ability to make us his beloved family.. Show all posts

Sunday, December 13, 2015

The Family of God


Jesus, your name is light and life. There are so many things I love about you and things I am grateful for in you.  It’s a never ending adventure – discovering new facets of who you are.

One of the facets I’ve been sitting with and admiring this year is the family of God.  Remembering that you, God, in the gift of Jesus, did everything so that we can not only be free of sin, free of death and forever alive (all of those things in and of themselves is outrageous, generous, and beyond words to thank you for).  But you, God, did not stop there.  Ever the abundant, life giving, love incarnate, brilliant one – you, incredibly bring us to, in Jesus, the family of God. We cannot begin to understand this.  Save us – we start to fathom your mercy and pity on us, free us - we can begin to understand your gracious kindness in this, but make us your family?  We are at odds with this. Why?  What would make you open your very self, your heart, your perfectly peaceful, loving and joyful family life and household to a rebellious, wrecked and ruinous heap of humanity? This is the unbelievable truth of you.  You already saw, beyond the wreckage – who you made each of us and all of us as a whole to be in you.  Our wretched state never changed your vision of who we are in you or your ability to bring about what you have always intended.
 
Your family, brilliant, amazing, glorious – it could only ever be that!  You, in what has yet be fully unveiled, established us in your very self.  In you, we could not be other than family to you.  We become the glory of your heart, not by our efforts, or anything within us – but by YOU!  And, it’s not enough that you overcame the enemy of our souls and saved us, but you made us overcomers in you as well.  Children not just in name but transformed in our very DNA . We are unpacking all along our lives what it means to come more and more into alignment with you and live your life out, expanding your Kingdom.

Thank you God, that in the seemingly impossible and small beginnings of Jesus’ life on earth through Mary and Joseph – that you remind us again, family, it’s everything you ever wanted for us – in you. And you bring impossible things (making us the beloved) in and through our relationship with you. It’s everything our true hearts long and were made for.

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