Brothers and Sisters of Jesus.

Brothers and Sisters of Jesus.
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"Ask, and the gift will come;

seek, and you shall find;

knock, and the door shall be opened to you." said Jesus to His followers.

But there are instances when our needs are fulfilled without our asking for it.

The following is one of them.

"and there before him was a woman who for eighteen years had been possessed by a spirit that crippled her; she was bent double and quite unable to stand upright.

12 When Jesus saw her he called her over and said, 'Woman, you are freed from your disability,'

and he laid his hands on her. And at once she straightened up, and she glorified God."
(Luke.13:11,12, 13)

Jesus cured a woman who had been ill for eighteen years

without her or anybody's  requesting for the cure.

The president of the synagogue,  where Jesus cured the woman

found fault with Jesus   for having cured her on a Sabbath.

But,  Jesus said,  "And this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has held bound these eighteen years -- was it not right to untie this bond on the Sabbath day?''

Jesus refers to her as 'daughter of Abraham'.

In His divinity He is the God of Abraham.

In His humanity, He is the son of Abraham as He was born in his lineage.

How kind and loving Jesus is!

He raises the status of a possessed and crippled woman to that of His sister!

According to Him both belong to the same lineage,  Abraham's.

When He taught us to pray,  He raised our status to that of His brothers and sisters by asking us to call His Father, 'our Father'!

He treats all of us as His own brothers and sisters.

How kind of Him!

When He created us we were merely humans, belonging to human family.

But when He became man to amend for our sins, as a man He belongs to our human family.

Many a times He referred to Himself as 'Son of man'.

By asking us to call His Father. 'our Father' He has adopted us as His brothers and sisters.

Yes, we are adopted children of our Heavenly Father! 

We are heirs to the kingdom of God.

"Those who follow the leading of God’s Spirit are all God’s sons; 

15 the spirit you have now received is not, as of old, a spirit of slavery, to govern you by fear;

it is the spirit of adoption, which makes us cry out, Abba, Father.

16 The Spirit himself thus assures our spirit, that we are children of God; 

17 and if we are his children, then we are his heirs too; heirs of God, sharing the inheritance of Christ; " (Romans.8:14-17)

Do we realize our greatness?

If we realize our family status, we will not run after worldly things.

As we are children of our heavenly Father,  heaven is our home, not this world.

It is just an inn where we can rest for sometime and then leave.

We must earn only what can be deposited in 'The Eternal Bank of Heaven'. 

''Lay up treasure for yourselves in heaven, where there is no moth or rust to consume it, no thieves to break in and steal."
(Matthew. 6:20)

"Then Jesus fastened his eyes on him, and conceived a love for him; In one thing, he said, thou art still wanting.

Go home and sell all that belongs to thee; give it to the poor, and so the treasure thou hast shall be in
heaven; " (Mark. 10:21)

"Sell what you have, and give alms, so providing yourselves with a purse that time cannot wear holes in, an inexhaustible treasure laid up in heaven, where no thief comes near, no moth consumes."(Luke. 12:33)

Higher the status,  more the responsibilities.

Grown-ups have more responsibilities than children.

Born as children of the world, we have been adopted as the children of God.

We must behave as such.

As we are the children of God,  we are supposed to love Him,  obey Him,  please Him and be thankful to Him.

"Jesus, dear brother,

We love you above all things.

We promise to obey all your commandments.

We will always be thankful to you for your adopting us as your brothers and sisters."

Lourdu Selvam.