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•31当下，耶稣的母亲和弟兄来站在外边，打发人去叫他。32有许多人在耶稣周围坐着，他们就告诉他说：“看哪，你母亲和你弟兄在外边找你。”33耶稣回答说：“谁是我的母亲？谁是我的弟兄？”34就四面观看那周围坐着的人，说：“看哪，我的母亲，我的弟兄。35凡遵行 神旨意的人，就是我的弟兄姐妹和母亲了。”
撒旦会利用我们在世界上的人际关系使我们远离耶稣。在我的事工中，我经常目睹这种情况。一个可爱的基督徒与一个非基督徒结婚了。他们决心要保持坚定的基督信仰。然而，他们之间与耶稣关系的张力，每天都在增强。这种张力每一次并不大，但最终会累计到十分巨大的一个地步。比如一个人去教会，这意味着把另一个人独自留在家里，他会闷闷不乐。每个星期天都会发生一次。
有人告诉耶稣，他的母亲和弟兄就在外边，众人以为他会立刻出去见他们。但是耶稣并没有。他环顾四周，看着正在这些听他教导的人，然后耶稣说了这些奇怪的话:“看哪，我的母亲和我的弟兄!凡遵行神旨意的人，就是我的弟兄姐妹和母亲了。”耶稣不再爱他的家人了吗?不。他只是在表达一个真理：他与那些听他话语的人之间的联系，甚至比他对家人的爱还要强烈。我们仔细想一想这句话。因为你因着信与耶稣相连，耶稣爱你甚至胜过他爱他的母亲和弟兄。你很清楚你自己与兄弟姐妹、和父母、孩子之间的家庭关系有多亲密，你有多么珍惜。你和耶稣的关系更紧密，因为他永远不会让你失望，因为你和他的关系是永远的。
我们的生命中只能有一种主要的关系。这种关系就是我们通过信心与耶稣建立的关系。其他的关系都是次要的，不管这段关系对我们有多重要。通过你与耶稣的关系，你会成为一个更好的丈夫，一个更好的妻子，一个更好的儿子或女儿或兄弟或姐妹。
祷告:主耶稣，你称我们是你的弟兄姐妹，这是多么大的祝福，这就是我的身份。我已经披戴了你的公义，奉你的名受了洗。在我的家庭和教会里，你通过那些在基督里的兄弟姐妹不断的祝福我。让我永远属于你!阿们。
Mark 3:31-35: Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. 32 A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” 33 “Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked. 34 Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! 35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.” (NIV)
Satan is not afraid to use our earthly relationships to keep us from Jesus. I have witnessed this too often in my ministry. A lovely Christian marries someone who is not a Christian. They are determined to keep their Christian faith strong. Yet, the pull on their relationship with Jesus grows stronger every single day. There is seldom a single ultimatum, only small ones that take their toll. Going to church alone means leaving the other at home alone and unhappy. There is an ultimatum of silence every Sunday.
When word came that Jesus’ mother and brothers were outside, everybody expected him immediately to go out and see them. But Jesus didn’t. Instead he looked around at the people listening to him and said these strange words: “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.” Did he no longer love his family? No. He was simply conveying that his tie to the people who listened to his Word was even stronger than love for family. THink about that for a moment. Jesus loves you more because you are connected to him by faith than he loved his mother and brothers. You know how much you treasure the family ties you have with siblings and parents and children. The tie that ties you to Jesus is even greater, because he will never fail you, because your relationship to him is forever.
There can be only one primary relationship in our lives. That relationship is the one we have in Jesus through faith. Every other relationship is secondary, no matter how important that relationship is to us. And by your relationship to Jesus, you will be a better husband, a better wife, a better son or daughter or brother or sister.
Prayer: Lord Jesus, how blessed I am that you should call me your brother, and that is what I am. I have been clothed in your righteousness and baptized in your name. I have been blessed with brothers and sisters in Christ in my family and in my church. Let me be yours forever! Amen.