It's amazing how little I knew about Biblical adoption, even until recently. By the time this blog post comes out, it will be Orphan Sunday. So I find myself thinking about many things.... Things I have learned and things I do not yet fully understand.
Our story started many years ago with a tiny seed that The Father planted in my heart.......a seed of love. For many years the seed was watered, but it was like the seed was sown in rocky soil with no depth to which it could root or sown in thorny soil so when it started to grow, it was choked out and it yielded no fruit. I needed to remove the stones and thorns of things that were plaguing my life....... Once I allowed the soil of my heart to be tilled and fertilized by God, He was able to give the increase for a harvest! I was able to experience Gods love in a much more real way and this allowed me to step out of the shadows of fear, into faith in a larger than life kind of way....through adoption.
It's interesting that I never knew that there is so much in the Bible about adoption, but it doesn't all jump right out like James 1:27 "pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world".
Did you know that several main "characters" in the Bible were adopted? Moses was adopted by Pharaohs family, Esther was adopted, and Jesus was adopted by Joseph, his earthly father.
Then there is the fact that as Christians, our whole faith is based on the fact that when we accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior, we are adopted into Gods family as sons and daughters and heirs to the throne of the Heavenly King! This is Through Gods greatest act of love...... adoption is about love.
I once had this idea that it was all so complicated. I thought it was something that some select few were"called for" and about "saving some poor child" , doing something to save the world, blah blah blah. It's just love....plain and simple. And we are all called to love.
So I have experienced Gods love growing in my heart and now our home has grown in love. We were 3, now 5. There are no orphans in our home. We have a beautiful daughter and 2 handsome sons. Our 2 youngest will be dedicated at church in just a few hours, which will be the official beginning of one of our only real missions on earth.....to help lead our children to have a personal relationship with our eternal Father.
There are worldly orphans and spiritual orphans. Some are 2 in the same. Although God promises to come to us and that He will not leave us as spiritual orphans. Wouldn't it be amazing if there were no children without a place to call home and a mother and father here on earth?
There is a call for all of us. What is your part?
