Walking with Jesus: The Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Genesis 15:1-6, 21:1-3; Hebrews 11:8, 11-12,17-19; Luke 2:22-40 We are family. Blood relatives have a genetic link to each of us, meaning we are related on a DNA level. Simply put, a blood relative is a person related to another by birth rather than by marriage. There is another concept of family that comes from God: Paul states how Jesus teaches that all people are God’s sons and daughters. “For we are the temple of the living God; as God said: I will live with them and move among them, and I will be their God and they shall be My people … and I will be Father to you, and you shall be sons and daughters to Me, says the Lord Almighty.” [2 Corinthians 6:16, 18] So we are brothers and sisters to all God’s people. God’s view of family is much different from ours. It is difficult for us reflecting on the people we see walking or driving down the street, thinking of them as family. They don’t look like me, act like me, talk like me. So many do not have the same dreams or even the same capab...