Time with Jesus: Luke 8:19-21
A Series on the Life of Christ According to Luke
When we walk with Jesus our relationships change. Culturally for Jesus his denial of his mother and brother and claiming of those in the crowd is significant. He is choosing strangers over family! But when we walk with Jesus we have to remember that Jesus frees us from all but following him. His mission to make the world new overrides his family relationships, political expectations, religious expectations—everything! When we walk with Jesus our faith must do that same thing.
This doesn’t mean that we ought not to care for anything or anyone—it means we can only care for them in ways that represent the Gospel and the Kingdom. It means that whenever any relationship or allegiance we have in life supercedes our relationship and allegiance to God we have to re-prioritize. As we see throughout the Gospel accounts, Jesus is flipping our expectations of what it means to be human. Jesus is what it means to be truly human and he is remaking us into the humans we were always meant to be and that means that so many of the places we seek security and meaning have to change.
He is making all things new. Amen.