Destiny

"My salvation will be forever," Isaiah 51:6.

But before getting to that, consider your ancestors. Your forebears. Your beginnings. Yes: Where'd you come from? Consider the rock from which you were cut; the quarry from which you were dug. Indeed. Look to Abraham. (Wait a minute! To Abraham? We're no descendants of Abraham! Nor of Sarah!) Yes, indeed. To Abraham. Your father. (Our father?!) To Sarah. Who bore you. (Bore us?!). Exactly! When people who seek the Lord get their new start in Christ, their roots get replanted. Replanted into the heritage God has cultivated for the past 4 thousand years. That's what new birth is about. Getting born again into God's family. The family he started with one man of faith and his offspring. Our past is not our destiny. God's past is. Sky kingdom.

As we converse with a brother or sister today, we reflect on God's work to make us family. And, together, we give thanks for his eternal salvation in Christ, offspring of Abraham.