Someone tells Jesus his mother and his brothers are here to see him and Jesus responds by saying that He or she who does the will of his Father is his mother or sister or brother.  Or  take this for instance.  Jesus says if you love husband or wife or children more than me you cannot be my disciple.  In the letter of James, sin is a respecter of persons.  He is talking about the rich and poor but he could have very easily have been talking about people who are related to us and people who are not.  Finally, Jesus leaves us with one commandment: to believe in him and love as he has loved..  Peter calls it the royal commandment, namely, to love your neighbor as yourself.  The evidence is clear.  We are to love others regardless of personal relationship.  To be a disciple is to treat the stranger as if he were your son or daughter, brother or sister, mother or father.  In the story of the good Samaritan Jesus demonstrates that our neighbor is a stranger in need.  He does not have one standard for those that have a flesh relationship to them and those who do not. 

            Unless we detach from human relationships we cannot and will not fulfill the royal commandment.  If we are more generous with our own children than someone else's in need we are not a disciple of Jesus Christ.  Yet for most of us this seems like an impossible thing to do and we dismiss what Jesus says because it is unrealistic.  The truth is most of the gospel is unrealistic.  It takes God to make a saint out of a sinner, to heal the unhealable, to walk on water, raise the dead, and feed thousands with but a few loaves and a couple of fishes.  Why aren't more people saved?  It is because what Jesus asks of most of us is unrealistic.  Unless you lose your life you will not save it.  Unless you forsake all you can not be my disciple. 

            Only by believing what Jesus says and acting upon it even though you do not understand it (not a bad definition of faith) will God begin to reveal to you the hidden mysteries of the gospel.  But if you have the courage to follow the way, the truth, and the life, the anointing will lead you into all truth and God will give the Spirit without measure.