So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family. Ephesians 2:19
The Family of God met last night at Amana. We gathered to raise funds for members of the family who live far away in a culture very different from our own. Because I leave town today for a week away with grandkids, I was not able to spend the entire evening with the family, but the brief time I spent renewed my love of the family and my awe at the extensive nature of the family.
Together In Christ, we who live and work together on weekly and daily basis are family in a special way. At the same time we enjoy oneness with a community so vast and varied that it may spend much of eternity in a amazing time of meet and greet.
May the Lord forgive us for it every slipping from out mind the great price He paid for us to be family. May He grant us the supernatural understanding of how vast and how miraculous is the extent of our family.
For those who spend much of yesterday praying for my immediate family, much thanks. God came through in a special and miraculous way. Let’s remember in prayer all of the family: those in poverty and persecution, those who hunger and those who have much, those who are growing and those who are way too satisfied. He died for us all, the Family of God.
Thank you Jesus.
Be blessed.
Nick
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