Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren!',

Back to The Pastor's Evening Visit

---

"Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren!" Hebrews 2:11

This is truly astonishing, especially if we consider the amazing CONTRAST between us:
His purity—and our pollution! 
His wealth—and our poverty! 
His strength—and our weakness!
His happiness—and our misery!
His knowledge—and our ignorance!
His dignity—and our degradation!

But though the contrast is so great—He still acknowledges us!

Yet there is a degree of LIKENESS between us: 
we have the same Father—even God; 
we possess His nature, spirit, and image in a degree; 
our work and His are the same—to glorify God; 
our aim and end—are one with His; 
and His heaven—is to be our eternal home. 

We are often ashamed of ourselves, and ashamed of one another—but Jesus never is! He now owns us in heaven before His Father and His holy angels—and soon He will call us brethren when we sit with Him on His glorious throne!

If Jesus is not ashamed to call us brethren—then never let us be ashamed to own each other, though in some things we differ. Jesus owns us ALL! Let us own all as our brethren, whom we have reason to believe are owned by Him.