When you read the Bible, do you ever want to skip over the genealogies? Like, they’re boring and have nothing to do with us and our lives? Right? Wrong!
Take, for instance, the first chapter of Matthew. Although that Gospel writer aims to show God’s people the royal Jewish roots of Jesus, he also includes His not-so-royal ancestors. Why? Because it’s the truth, and as most of us have surely heard, Jesus IS the Way, the Truth, and the Life. (John 14:6)
To know the way we’re going, the truth about ourselves, and the life the Lord offers us, we need to know where we, the people of God, have been. That answer can come as we embrace Jesus’ genealogy as our own.
If you haven’t already done this, look up unfamiliar names in Matthew 1 to see the generosity of our Father God, Who welcomes into His family every person (as in, every person) who comes to Him through Jesus Christ.
Since that long chapter of Matthew may take a while to investigate thoroughly, I offer a brief summation that came to me this morning in senryu (haiku’s cousin.)
Jesus’ Family Tree
holds kings, killers, prostitutes –
also you and me!
©2023, Mary Harwell Sayler
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Mary Harwell Sayler 