Ancestry or Family tree helps people to discover their bloodlines. But what really matters is...
"The record of the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah, the son of David, the son of Abraham:" Matt 1:1
Matthew records 28 generations from Abraham to the birth of Jesus (v17). In Jesus' bloodline are folks just like us; some honorable and some not so much. Tamar, pretended to be a prostitute since Judah didn't honor his word. Rahab, was honorable, but wasn't even Jewish. We could look thru the bloodline for inconsistencies in these folk's characters but let's not.
The purpose of this bloodline is to show the fulfillment of prophecy. Jesus is the Messiah.
The only bloodline that truly matters is being born into the family of God. John writes, "But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1:12-13
Being born into the family of God! I thank the Lord for adopting me, making me His. And yet there are those close to us who can't say that. Let's pray for the Holy Spirit to draw those who aren't of the same bloodline to our Father.
-To Know Jesus. To Live on Mission.