Blade Devotional
YOU’RE A DIFFERENT SPECIES TO YOUR FAMILY
That’s why your natural family can persecute you, disown you, and even betray you to death.
FAMILY FRIDAY
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household – Matthew 10:34-36
Through the New Birth, the Life of Christ in you has made you different to your natural parents and relations. Before you were born again, you received your life from your parents, which they received from others before them, going all the way back to Adam in the garden. When you were born again, the life of Adam in you was supplanted and replaced with the Life of Christ. This is what many don’t understand about themselves.
John 1:12-13 says, ‘Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.’ The New Birth makes you a direct Offspring of God who’s not related to your earthly family. You might still be related in the flesh, but spiritually, you’re from two different families. You’re from above and they’re from below. You’re a New Creature and they’re still the old. You’re related to Christ, they’re related to Adam. You’re a different species to them.
If your family members are born again, then you all have the same Father in Heaven, otherwise, other Christians become your Brothers and Sisters because of the same Life in you. That’s why your natural family can persecute you, disown you, and even betray you to death. They know you’re different from them. That’s why other Christians accept you and are willing to take you in. It’s the Life of Christ in you. However, because of the same Life, we don’t hate our natural relations. We love them, and pray for them, even when they resent us. It’s the Life of Christ in us that loves them with the same Love that went to the Cross for them.
PRAYER
Father in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, I pray that my unsaved family members may be saved and come to the Knowledge of the Truth. Amen.