Family is everything.
At Christmas, we usually reconnect with family.
Who is our family?
To some of us, our family of origin may have been a bit confusing. Sometimes in family, in our daily world, we experience fear, born out of relationship interactions with each other—clouded by the temptations of this world. We learn that we are not safe. In the fear, we turn to other things that can fill that hole of loneliness and darkness that only the world can show us. Drugs, alcohol, whatever may soothe us and help us feel ok and a “part of” again. That feeling where alcohol or drugs take us is not real. It is temporary and not sustainable. It always wears off. Goes away.
What IS sustainable?
Spiritual Relationship.
It starts vertically, with surrender to God. God loves us so much that he wants to connect with us, again—or for the first time. God is there waiting. When that relationship starts with the Father, then we can go out horizontally to others in “the family”—our brothers and sisters in our immediate family and then others in our extended family—all others we meet along our path.
God’s light in our life is real. We can shine that light for others and show them the way to live in Peace—together.
Romans 8:15 it states:
“ The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.”
This passage suggests that all believers are adopted into God’s family through faith in Jesus Christ!
It’s more than just words—it’s an invitation to belong.
Reach out to another today.
Shine your light.
Show them that they belong.
“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works, so that no one can boast.”
Ephesians 2:8-9
