So, I realized something just now; my mom's sister has never been any part of my life; I'm pretty sure I've never met her.
Why do I call her my mother's sister? For that reason exactly; she doesn't have a relationship with me separate from her relationship with my mother, and that's sort of her implicit starting point; she's my mother's sister. But having a personal relationship with me, directly, individually, would mean that she was my aunt.
But she's not...at least not in that sense. I don't know. I'm making a point, don't get off track.
I think the same thing is applicable to my relationship with my heavenly Father, but it's not optional. I'm related to God by blood (so to speak) via Adam, my own parents, and everyone else biologically linked between Adam and I.
But having a relationship with God is more than that blood, it's Jesus' blood as well.
Jesus' blood is the relationship between God and I, and without it, I'm the least great grandson to a dust-made man made dust. Without his sacrifice and presence and relationship, I'm nothing like a son; I'm an alien; barely recognizable.
But it's not optional, God's relationship with me. His blood is my right by Christ's Christmas and Easter gift; his blood is the link between gracious Father and forgetful son never forgotten.
That's all I've got for you.
!Noah!
