Our Brother

“*He is not ashamed to call them brethren.” — HEB. ii. Sa. people do not like it to be known if they have relations not so well off as themselves, and do not care to mention them. How different this is from the Lord Jesus. He is the Son of God, the King of kings, and yet He is not ashamed to call us brethren. He came down to earth on purpose to be made like us in everything (Heb. ii. ), so that He might be our brother. He is our good, kind, strong Elder Brother, and He will be to us everything you can think of about the very Lest brother you ever heard of. - What a difference it makes to the summer holidays when a dear elder brother comes home! And if a great home trouble comes, who is wanted so much as the elder brother who feels it all because it is his sorrow too, and yet knows what to do and how to help the others through the dark time? So it is Jesus who can make all your happiest times happier still, and yet He is the Brother born for adversity (Prov. xvii. ), who comes to comfort and help us as no one else can, when we are in trouble.

Perhaps you think, “Oh, how I should like to know that Jesus is my Brother!” If He is your Saviour, He will be to you all that every one of His other beautiful names tells you He is. But He has told us something which should help you to lay hold of this one. When the multitude sat about Him, listening to His words (Mark ii. ), He looked round about on them and said, “Behold My mother and My brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is My brother, and My sister, and My mother.” Doing the will of God is just trying to do what He tells you and what pleases Him. And Jesus knows if you are really wishing and trying to do this. And if you are, that shows you are His little brother or His little sister, for He says so. And although He is the Mighty God, He is not ashamed to call you so, and you may say: Christ is my Father and my Friend, My Brother and my Love;

My Head, my Hope, my Counselor,
My Advocate above..