D12

"For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my
sister, and mother." Mark 3:35

The half brothers of Jesus ~ James and Jude ~ both wrote Epistles, and
they never mention that Jesus was their half brother. You see, anyone
who is in Christ Jesus is closer to Him than His physical mother and His
physical brothers were in that day. This is the reason He could look
into the crowd of a multitude of people and say that these "are closer
kin to Me than even My mother and My brothers." The important thing is
to be rightly related to God in Christ Jesus by having received Him as
Savior, which gives us the right of being the sons of God. That is
bringing us wonderfully close to Him! God Bless You.

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be
called children of God! And that is what we are!