“For even his own brothers did not believe in him.” John 7:5; “When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, ‘He is out of his mind.’” Mark 3:21; “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.” Mark 3:32; “Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.” Mark 3:35.
OUCH! If any of my children were to say this regarding our family my earthly feelings would be hurt. But, at a very tender age of 12, Jesus determined His family to be those who were vertical to God. ‘Didn’t you know I had to be in my Father’s house?’ Luke 2:49.
We are told that Jesus experienced everything on earth that we experience so He can relate to our suffering. Introduced in our passage is sibling rivalry in its purest form. The brothers of Jesus did not buy what their oldest brother was selling. To them, He was most likely a renegade…a loose canon. So they ran to their mother and convinced her that her eldest and supernatural blessing from God has lost His mind! Being a mom, she rushes to His side in an effort to save Him. The teachers of the law communicated to the family of Jesus that Satan himself has entered Jesus, giving Satan credit for driving out the demons in the miracles of Jesus.
Jesus immediately drew a line in the sand concerning His true family. Oh, His biological family was accurate in determining He had lost His mind. For the mind He found was the mind of God. Every thought, every action and every word came from our Father in Heaven. Jesus lived the perfect life of a Son aligned with God as His Father and determined His mother, brother and sisters are those who pursued this same family.
If we are to pattern our lives after Jesus, let us lose our mind to God.
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