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你或许曾经觉得，世界上似乎没有任何人明白你正在面对的事或理解你做某事的原因。

耶稣也有同样的遭遇，当时祂的亲属“就出来要拉住祂。”他们必定认为耶稣已经不能够自己独立生活了——他们可能因为祂感到尴尬。他们想带祂回家，要来保护祂和避开众人的目光。

马可福音告诉我们，当耶稣的家人来到祂教导众人的地方，他们无法进去，于是便打发人转告祂，他们要找祂。耶稣的反应，起初听来可能会令人感到困惑：“谁是我的母亲？谁是我的弟兄……凡遵行神旨意的人，就是我的弟兄姐妹和母亲了。”（参可 3:33-35）

我尝试猜想耶稣的母亲马利亚会如何理解这件事。在耶稣降生之前，天使曾经说过，这孩子将会是救世主神的儿子，（参路 1:31-35）现在，她的心必定感到深深被刺痛了！

在这里，我们再一次看见，耶稣呼召我们去过的是怎样的一种生活。祂专注在父神的旨意上，但祂的家人不明白，所以他们以为祂癫狂了；事实上，他们才是糊涂人，他们让自己的意愿代替了天父的旨意。然而，像耶稣那样，纵使别人认为我们癫狂了，我们也谨记蒙召是以服侍神为首要的事。

Perhaps you have had a time when it felt like no one in the world understood what you were going through or why you were doing something.

That also happened to Jesus, and in this situation his family “went to take charge of him.” They must have thought Jesus was no longer able to live on his own—and they might have been embarrassed by him and for him. They wanted to take him home, perhaps to keep him protected and away from the public eye.

Mark tells us that when Jesus’ family arrived at the place where he was teaching, they couldn’t get into the house, so they sent a message inside to say they were looking for him. And Jesus’ response was probably confusing, at least at first: “Who are my mother and brothers…Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”

I try to imagine Jesus’ mother, Mary, processing this event. Before Jesus was born, an angel had said that this child would be the Savior, the Son of God (Luke 1:31-35). Her heart must have been wrenched!

Here again we see the kind of living that Jesus calls us to. He is focused on the will of God the Father. His family doesn’t understand, so they think he is out of his mind. In fact, they are the confused ones; they have replaced the Father’s will with their own wills. But like Jesus, we are called to serve God first, even when others think we are out of our minds.