The Most Important Relationship {Day 23}

I often wonder what it might have been like to walk the earth with Jesus and Mary.

I mean they were a family like every other family, there had to be talk. Did people think she was crazy, you know, claiming to be pregnant and not having relations?

Then there was her crazy cousin Elizabeth, pregnant after everyone thought she was barren. What about that husband of hers, goes into the temple, doesn’t believe the Angel Gabriel and comes out mute!!!

There had to be talk! Just imagine how our own families navigate, things that happen. How we speculate, judge and gossip. I am sure there was a lot of that going around.

Especially when Simeon and Anna prophesied at Jesus’s presentation. Makes me wonder if they had heard stirrings of these two.

So the question becomes, if I heard the talk about Mary and Joseph and lived in the same town, would I be friends with them? Or would I think they were weird, and stay away?

What about that crazy cousin John, baptizing the people, then he baptizes Jesus, the dove descends and a voice from heaven declaring him God’s son, would I /we repent and believe?

Think about when he changed the water into wine, perhaps we were there, would we believe then?

What about all the healings, feeding the multitudes, and forgiving sins, would I/we believe then? You know when He was here in the flesh, walking the earth, preaching and teaching, what do you think you would have done?

Today’s reflection is about having an intimate relationship with Jesus. This is why I like to ponder how I would react if I walked the earth with him and could reach out and touch him, I hope I would have believed what I saw with my own eyes.

Blessed are those who have not seen any yet believe.

That is you and I, my friends, this is you and I.

Jesus is calling us to have a relationship with him, like we would have if he were alive today, walking, teaching, preaching, curing, feeding and forgiving.

He wants to be involved in every aspect of our lives. He wants us to learn from him, like the disciples did, he wants to teach us, feed us, and heal us. Just as he did with all those he came in contact with while he walked the earth.

We are halfway there, we believe without seeing. What is still keeping us from this vibrant, living, life changing life we would have being a part of his inner circle, just like the disciples, 2000 plus years ago?

This is today’s question and challenge.

Do we really believe enough to be seen with Jesus, the neighbor’s kid, you know the one with the mother who claimed to be pregnant without having sex?

The one who has that uncle that went into the Temple and came out and couldn’t talk. Yeah the one from that family, who has the crazy cousin baptizing people? The one who had a dove descend on his head. You know, the one who goes around changing water into wine, eating with sinners and healing people, that Jesus.

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