{"id":1544,"date":"2021-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2021-03-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T14:00:00","slug":"when-your-family-doesnt-understand-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/when-your-family-doesnt-understand-you\/","title":{"rendered":"When Your Family Doesn\u2019t Understand You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible says: <i>\u2018Jesus\u2019 mother and brothers came to see Him. They stood outside and sent word for Him to come out and talk with them. There was a crowd sitting around Jesus, and someone said, \u201cYour mother and your brothers are outside asking for You.\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cWho is My mother? Who are My brothers?\u201d Then He looked at those around Him and said, \u201cLook, these are My mother and brothers. Anyone who does God\u2019s will is My brother and sister and mother.\u201d\u2019<\/i> (Mark\u00a03:31\u201335<sup>\u00a0NLT<\/sup>) <\/p>\n<p>One of your greatest tests of faith will be family members who don\u2019t understand you or share your values and vision. And it calls for wisdom and grace on your part. Despite His family\u2019s inability to understand Him, Jesus continued to care for them and respect them. However, He refused to let them dictate to Him or alter the assignment He believed God had given Him. His priority was the people who had gathered to hear what He had to say. <\/p>\n<p>Are you feeling misunderstood and rejected by your family today? Then pray this prayer: \u2018Father, help me to live as Jesus lived; facing head-on those who misunderstand me, hearing their words and feeling the sting of their accusations, yet learning to live above them. Help me to be gracious towards the one whose life is being consumed by resentment and crippled by fear. Bring me full circle to a place of peace, so that no matter who may misunderstand me, I\u2019m able to go on like Jesus went on\u2014all the way to the cross, the resurrection, and the prize. In Christ\u2019s name, I pray. Amen.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible says: \u2018Jesus\u2019 mother and brothers came to see Him. They stood outside and sent word for Him to come out and talk with them. There was a crowd sitting around Jesus, and someone said, \u201cYour mother and your brothers are outside asking for You.\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cWho is My mother? Who are My [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ucbmedia.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}