Mark 10:28-31 (NIV)

28 Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

John 19:25-30 (NIV)

25 Near the cross of Jesus stood his mother, his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 When Jesus saw his mother there, and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to her, “Woman, here is your son,” 27 and to the disciple, “Here is your mother.” From that time on, this disciple took her into his home.
28 Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” 29 A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. 30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

Reflection:

Family reunions can be terribly fun and tremendously frustrating. But God’s way of ‘reunion’ among His family and children always happens at the cross. This is why God’s family can and will work. With this in mind, there isn’t a moment together that can’t be deeply impacted by the grace and glory of God.

Responding to the Transmission:

Let’s be encouraged today as God’s church of the power and love we have as His people, as part of His family. Let’s pray for an increase work of the Spirit in our church that we would live out our calling even more together, that our relationships, our marriages, our lives together would reflect God’s grace and glory to this generation.