God's Family

Sometimes we just say yes, not because we want to be part of god's family, but because we just want to escape pain. And so in that way, maybe we're kind of like the gibeonites who were brought in because they just didn't want to be destroyed. But as time passed, many of those gibeonites became more deeply and deeply a part of his family. Knowing that there is a father in heaven who loves us, there is our lord jesus, who is our brother as well, and that we are brothers and sisters. Ad that's one of the reasons why we can live in joy and we can continue to pray for each other.