FAMILY TIES

The term “family” evokes a different image to each of us. Those of us who are blessed with a host of blood relatives, or one related by marriage, might picture two or three generations linked together in a special web of loyalty and love. Others who have few close relatives, or no living relatives at all, may have an extended family of neighbors and friends who act as a network of loving support. Any of these “family” relationships is a special gift from God. However, there is no greater blessing from God than this: that He made us, as His children, a part of His family. But we should behave like God’s very own children, adopted into the bosom of his family, and calling to him,

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:

Romans 8:15-16(kjv).

Because of today’s mobile society, we may feel we are without family and friends but as a part of God’s family, we have family wherever we go. Rest in the knowledge that in Him we live in a relationship of family to the body of Christ. This is an eternal family bound together by the blood of Jesus that goes far beyond the natural ties to our families. We are linked together by the all-encompassing bond of God’s love...GOD BLESS US ALL... my brethren...