Day Fourteen

 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.                                                                                       Galatians 3:26-29 NIV

What is family? What does it mean to be a member of a family? Some families can be functional with everyone knowing their various roles with lots of love and laughter in the walls, but some can be dysfunctional. There are no perfect families, but there is a perfect God who loves His children. Billy Graham wrote, “If people stumble, we help them get back on their feet; if they veer off course, we urge them back. On this journey we are all brothers and sisters in the same family – the family of God. Amazing things can happen when the family of God bands together.” Paul understood the importance of the family of God banding together to make an impact. He wrote, “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith… there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” We are born into the family of God through faith. We are clothed with Christ through our baptism into Christ. We become heirs to the promise through the covenant with Abraham. God establishes covenant with his covenant children to establish a covenant family who become heirs of the covenant of promise.

You are a son or daughter of God. You are a child of the King. You are written into God’s will, and you are an heir of everything God has. You are a beneficiary of the lavish love of God, which has changed you from failure to family. Amazing things happen when the family of God bands together. Pray for unity. Pray for hope. Pray for peace. Pray for love.