Where do we come from?

"Where do you come from?"

"Michigan."
"Oh, you must like the Lions."
"No, actually I like the Packers. I'm from the upper peninsula."

You can't always tell what people are like by where they're from. Take human beings, for example. The Bible says clearly that we come from God Genesis 1:27. But you wouldn't know it by how many human beings act. They go from being grossly immoral to grossly proud of their morality. It almost makes you think that people come from monkeys.

But the more you think about that, the more you realize that can't be right either, regardless of how many similarities there are in the DNA sequences. Every time you closely investigate the "common ancestor" claims, you realize that they're based entirely on speculation. People don't act like they're from monkeys. But they don't act like they're from God either.

That's because people are really from their parents (John 3:6.) There's usually no getting around it. "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

"A chip off the old block."

The problem with being from your parents is that you get the bad with the good. Sometimes the bad keeps you from having a really good relationship with your father. And the bad always makes it hard for people to have a good relationship with their heavenly Father. That's where Jesus comes in. He's also from God (John 1:18). He invites you to be his sibling (John 1:12,13), a member of God's family. He's restored your good relationship with your heavenly Father, the one you're really from. And he wants you to believe and to put your trust in him.

In some parts of the world, when you're asked where you're from, you don't answer with a geographic area. You tell the questioner the name of your family. Jesus has come so that no matter how confused you are about where you are from, you can be very clear about where you are going: to God's house, the one Jesus has prepared for you in heaven

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