Familiarity may end up in over freedom and disrespect. The people in the village of Jesus were seeing him from the childhood and were considering him like any other. They failed to understand that he is the Son of God because they were very much familiar with Jesus and His family.
Once a parish priest asked the catechism students that who are the most holy people of a parish. One of the answers was those who come for the mass every day. The parish priest exclaimed “then the most holy person would be the sacristan of the parish, because he attends the mass every day sometimes more than once”. The next day the parish priest asked the sacristan to decorate the Alter for a special reason. When the parish priest went to the parish in between the decoration he saw the sacristan smoking near the Alter. Too much familiarity sometimes causes disrespect.
We are close to Jesus, moving in Jesus. We also may fell into this danger of too much familiarity with Jesus that we may think, “it is ok if I do this because Jesus is with me” or “if at all I do not do my responsibilities Jesus know it and understands it”, etc. Familiarity is good. But it should not guide us to use the freedom that comes from familiarity without responsibility.
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