Family Ties

I often try to hide parts of my family. I mean, there are parts that I am extremely embarrassed about. I don't want anyone to know about my drunken uncle or my crazy aunt. I don't want anyone to see how we really are. That shows who I am and I don't want that. Isn't that just like a human? Isn't it just like us to let people in our lives go because we don't want to be associated with them?

This was made more real than it had ever been before this summer and then again just a few days ago. When you look at the line of Jesus, the Bible leaves no one out. It does not just say that Jesus was born and that he had no past. No...Jesus had a past. He had a messy one at that. He did not come from the Godly, rule following people. Nope, he came from the dirty messed up people who lived their lives as the world lived. He came from people who were prostitutes, adulterers, and murderers. People that we would never own up to being in our family, but the Bible does not leave this family out. The Bible owns it. Our Lord and Savior comes from people who most of us would consider the scum of the earth.

And taking this on farther...how cool is it that God could have totally made Jesus come from another line of family? He could have came from the family that had less messed up people. He could have came from the good law abiding citizens. He could have came from those who did live lives that were good, but he didn't. He came from a family that was messed up and God planned it this way.