Can't Get Next to You?

In an earlier post, a poker Tournament Director tried to wrap his brain around our relationship to Jesus Christ. He said we can be "next to Him."

We answered that by saying personally, we're not next to Jesus -- we're below Him. There's evidence for this in Ephesians 5:23-24. "For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church.... Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything."

If we're talking about a church "corporate structure," Jesus is at the top and we're all below Him. But here's the thing -- Jesus also talked about a closer relationship than that.

"Whoever does God's will is my brother and sister and mother," the Lord said in Mark 3:35. That's a family relationship.

"Both the one who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family," adds Hebrews 2:11. "So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers."

We're heard some Christian groups even suggest believers can be "co-Saviors" with Jesus when He comes again. That's a deep concept, which may sound almost blasphemous to some. We won't delve into that here -- but suffice to say Jesus wants us to become part of His family. Are you doing God's will, so that can happen?

(P.S. We're admittedly having a hard time wrapping our brain around the end of Mark 3:35. Have female readers ever thought about being a mother of Christ? What does that mean to you?)