May 7
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Look, these are my mother and brothers. Anyone who does God’s will is my brother, sister and mother. –Mark 3:34-35 (NLT)
YOUR TRUE FAMILY
A poem and essay by ILMA
Are you close with your mother?
Do you have sisters and brothers?
How much does your family know Christ?
Do they live their lives under God’s light?
Are your family believers or unbelievers?
Do they seek the truth from God the Father?
Your true family is those who does God’s will
They are the ones who obey, is truthful and real.
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I have one sister and two brothers. Although we were a complete family, I have never really felt that I belonged. My father worked out of the country since I was born until my late twenties. My mother was always busy working too. I was the eldest and my brother and I had two year difference. It was just me and Danny for 13 years until my next brother Michael was born, followed by Iris after two years. My aunts and two cousins lived with us and my mother delegated her parental duties to her twin sisters. None of my family read the bible. They attended church occasionally.
The bible tells us that our true family are those who does God’s will. They are our spiritual family. They are the ones that God wants us to belong to.
PRAYER
Lord, thank you for giving me your family of believers.
REFLECTION
Why did Jesus stressed the hierarchy of spiritual over biological family?
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