What's your family like? Now before you answer that question, I'm guessing you are thinking about the family that you grew up with....the one who you call "Mom and Dad....and your siblings...if you have any." But the family I was thinking about is a new family, the family of God.
Just again this weekend I have been struck by the incredible gift of a large, diverse and unique family all brought together by the love of God, through Jesus. Where the climax of getting to heaven is not that we get to have a place with angels and clouds, but the biggest deal will be that we can be the "people of God, that we can be with God, we can be with Him."
In that family of believers there will be people from all nations (it hit me this week too how most likely there will be more people from China & Africa than from North America)...and that somehow we will all worship in the same language.
So, for the new family that we can be part of once we say "yes" to following Jesus - there is an amazing party awaiting us in heaven, but also a wild adventure of loving and caring for those who are being added to our spiritual family all the time!
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