Is your fantasy that your family will be like the Waltons? An expectation that your dearest

friends will be your next of kin? Jesus didn't have that expectation. This is Max Locato.

Look how Jesus defined his family in Mark 335.

My true brother and sister and mother are those who do what God wants.

He recognized that his spiritual family could provide what his

physical family did not. If Jesus himself couldn't force his family to share his

convictions what makes you think you can force yours?

You know, we can't control the way our family responds to us.

We have to move beyond the naive expectation that if we do good our family will treat us right. I can't assure

you that your family will ever give you the blessing that you seek but I know this

much. God will.

Except God as your father, and let God give you what your family does not.