The Family, The Tree

….and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree” Deut 23:1

“In a culture where the growth of one's family tree was the source of meaning in life, to be a eunuch was to be a withered, fruitless branch that might have leaves now but would soon be a lifeless stick. God, however, made an extravagant promise: he would welcome foreigners who had at one time worshiped other gods and even eunuchs who had served in their temples.”

…. “but in God's glorious kingdom, those who choose to serve him will receive an eternal legacy even more enduring than sons and daughters. He will graft them into his own family tree, and they will never be cut off.”

“Many of you who are reading this chapter struggle with broken families or crushed dreams of future family and are feeling left out of the whole "family" plot of the Bible. I write this chapter as a woman who is nearing fifty and has never married or had children. Personally, I will be among the first to ask the Lord to fulfill his promise to give the eunuchs who served him a ‘name better than sons and daughters.’”

Jesus redeems what the locusts have eaten. Think about that! What Satan has stolen from you, Jesus will give it back! Jesus wants to save and restore, no matter where you have been!

From Reading The Bible with Rabbi Jesus

Blessings