The Question of Spiritual Birth Family

Whether born into a family where the Word of God is believed, loved, cherished,
Or born into one which has not time for that or for Him,
Whether we grew up going to church whenever the doors were opened,
Or didn't have a family which thought in those terms and had other priorities,
We were all born into the family of Adam, of Noah, of sin in our DNA and
Of sin in our hearts, priorities, proclivities--
Sin nourished by the world's systems of all kinds,
Sin nurtured from birth by both the well-meaning and the ill-meaning
In our lives.
And we, because of being born to trespass and to sin,
Revealed in trespassing and in sinning,
Whatever forms those took for us individually.
We were spiritually dead and we didn't know it, and we didn't care.
Entangled in the nets of the world, the flesh, the devil,
Enjoying such entanglements,
Until,
Unless,
The intervening, amazing, saving grace of God;
God in heaven, God incarnate, God crucified, God risen, God ascended, God
Interceding;
Unless,
Until,
And oh then if
He does
Graciously,
Eternally,
Divinely
Intervene and intercede,
Giving us life by giving His life,
Who are we not to fall and not to call,
"Save me, perishing, sinful me," knowing
Such grace is willing, is able, is active.
Mercy so great, mercy so free, mercy so costly,
Saved such as me.