【双语灵修】谁是我的家人？

马太福音 12:46-50

耶稣还对众人说话的时候，不料他母亲和他弟兄站在外边，要与他说话。有人告诉他说：“看哪，你母亲和你弟兄站在外边，要与你说话。”他却回答那人说：“谁是我的母亲？谁是我的弟兄？”就伸手指着门徒说：“看哪，我的母亲，我的弟兄！凡遵行我天父旨意的人，就是我的弟兄、姐妹和母亲了。”

6月2日

谁是我的家人？

“‘凡遵行我天父旨意的人，就是我的弟兄、姐妹和母亲了。’” -太 12:50

当你听到“家庭”一词时，首先会想到什么？在我成长的地方，家庭通常由夫妻及其亲生子女组成，有些家庭也会收养孩子，有些夫妇没有孩子，也有些父母离异。但在当时的文化下，最常见的家庭是核心家庭。然而，在《圣经》和当今世界能符合这种描述的家庭并不常见了。

当耶稣的家人试图在拥挤的人群中传话给他时，耶稣借此教导说：“凡遵行我天父旨意的人，就是我的弟兄、姐妹和母亲了。”

耶稣在帮助他的门徒认识一种新家庭——一种比血脉更强大的联结。这并非否定血缘关系，而是邀请我们进入一个更广阔、更丰富的家——神的家，我们在神的国度中与神同住。

本月，我邀请你去认识我工作及居住所在的罗斯兰社区、我的血缘家庭，以及其他我所属的家庭群体的家人。愿神的灵运行在我们中间，让我们在彼此的关系和群体中——无论是多么不同或多样——都能认出神家的美好礼物。

祷告

天父，感谢你在基督里赐给我们众多的家人。愿我们在信心和恩典中一同成长。阿们。

Matthew 12:46-50

MONDAY, JUNE 2

WHO IS MY FAMILY?

“Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.” — Matthew 12:50

When you hear the word family, what usually comes to mind? Where I grew up, a family was generally made up of a husband and wife and their biological children. Some families also had adopted children. Some couples did not have children, and some parents were divorced. But the most common family in that time and culture was the nuclear family. In the Bible and in today’s world, though, it’s less common to find families fitting that description.

When Jesus’ family tried to get a message to him as crowds gathered around him, he saw an opportunity for a teaching moment and said, “Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Jesus was helping his followers to describe a new kind of family, a community bound by something more powerful than the blood in our veins. This is not a rejection of the biological family. It’s an invitation to a bigger, richer family—the family of God, with whom we live in the kingdom of God.

This month you are invited to meet family members in the Roseland community where I work and live, in my biological family, and in other family groups that I am a part of. May God’s Spirit work in us all to recognize the beautiful gift of his family in the relationships and communities we are a part of—no matter how different or diverse they might be.

Father, thank you for the gift of our broader family in Christ. May we keep growing together in faith and grace. Amen.