Mark 3: 21, 31-35
We saw that Jesus always priorities doing God’s will in any way;
We also saw what makes many miss prioritizing God’s word because of their self-ambitions and needs, like the Jews in the wilderness yearning for meat, etc.
We also saw in John 4:5, 7, and 27 that “He had to travel through Samaria “without meeting His followers.
Today, let’s see that there is no other way than doing God’s will. If He couldn’t even spare His one and only son to rescue us, how super is this life?
He used His son’s blood to bring us to Himself. Some lovers cut their skin and mix their blood as a sign of deep love, and this is blood with sin!! What about the sinless blood of Jesus?
Lovers pretend to be one, but during the burial of their boyfriend, they stand by the graveside, saying, “Honey, how could you leave me alone?” If you mix your blood as a sign of oneness, jump in the grave. This is fake, temporary love—angels without wings.
Think about Jesus as the soldiers are coming to take Him. He never ran like the disciples but accepted to die because of us; what a love!
So Jesus prioritized the word of God and wants us to do likewise, as He said in Matthew 10: 37-39: The person who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; the person who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever doesn’t take up his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Anyone finding his life will lose it, and anyone losing his life because of me will see it.
His disciples who heard Him say this lost their lives to gain it! Now they are in Heaven! We will find them. But those who are not Christians will see Satan in Hell. I need not sugarcoat; every word I speak is in the holy bible.
In this Story, Jesus is followed by His family instead because they are not the priority; the word of God is the priority. And the family finds Him busy preaching it.
So if anybody says, does, or makes you do anything that pushes you from the relationship with Christ, don’t hate them but hate the humanistic relationship they are pushing you to.