Levítico 20:5 Nueva Versión Internacional (NVI)

yo mismo me pondré en contra de él y de su familia; eliminaré del pueblo a ese hombre y a todos los que se hayan prostituido con él, siguiendo a Moloc.

Excuse my Spanish, but it struck me this morning as I was releasing yesterday’s devotional Sound Familiar that it is possible that the root words for both family and familiar might well be familia. Who do we know best if not a family member? We hope we do anyway.

Being the youngest of four with an eight year spread, my siblings know me much better that I know them. They have been a part of my whole life, while I know only what they care to share about those years before I came along. By the time I was old enough to realize that fact my older siblings were gone from the house.

I cannot speak to the issues of familiarity from any aspect except what was common between us, and what little they are willing to share. Now within this new family called church, the fellowship of saints, we are all connected in that same manner. I only know as much about your life before I came along as you are willing to share.

I understand that parts of our past lives might be painful. Mine was for sure. If we do not share those things with our new family it makes it all that more difficult for us to fit in, to become familia.

Ephesians 4:16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

This is the purpose of family, to edify one another in love!