John 8:53 “Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?”
Your Defining Relationship
I love history. I think we, as a culture, are very short-sighted. We rarely think about what life was like one day before we were born or will be like one day after we are gone. Most of us have no context for our lives or the times we are living in. We are living in an extraordinary, “watershed” time in history.
With that being said, most of us end up defining our very identity by who we were and not who God is. Jews who were proud of their heritage in Abraham asked the God of Abraham, “Art thou greater than our father Abraham? . . . whom makest thou thyself?” You may not be Jewish, but you might have a godly heritage or, at the very least, a heritage that begins with you. I love my family, and I am thankful for the enormous heritage I’ve been left. If I am not careful, I can define my life by who my grandfather was instead of who God is.
Your relationship to God Almighty is the defining relationship of your life. If you are right with God, you will be right with your spouse, children, and parents. You can’t be right with the God that you cannot see if you are not right with the people you can see (I John 4:20). Thank God for the good heritage you enjoy, but don’t let the piety of your heritage dim the truth that the defining relationship of your life is your relationship to God and His Son.