Yesterday, at the beginning of the church service, the pastor brought up a young couple and their two young sons to pray for them as they are to leave this week for South Africa. They are to stay there for 6 weeks getting acquainted with their two newest members of their family, a little girl and boy whom they are adopting...this has been three years in coming...
Flashback......1
The year is 1980, fall, a young woman has give us permission to adopt her child to be born in December.....we don't know if it will be a boy or girl...but we are ecstatic, waiting in anticipation...we choose names. Our two children are excited for a new brother or sister...waiting....the the news comes, SHE is born, Amy is here, "beloved"....we get on the airplane with baby blankets, clothing and fly...
Staying with the lawyer who has adopted their children as well, we arrive at the hospital in great anticipation.....he hands over this little girl with a full head of auburn hair...she is instantly ours...we fly home and she joins her brother and sister....so begins and continues her life....as part of our family...
Flashback....2
The year is 1984, winter, a little boy is being released for adoption from the state foster care program. We have been in the foster care program for 5 years,taking care of infants to 5 years olds...they call and ask if we would like a little boy to join our family...our older son is jumping up and down as he has always wanted a brother...yes, yes...we drive to another city, meet with the various agencies and then go to the foster home...there is this little boy who greets us at the door with his arms up in the air to be held and loved...and Matthew is ours, "gift of God".....so begins and continues his life ...as part of our family....
God had it all planned out from the beginning, these two arrived a different route than our first two...ALL were anticipated with great joy and celebration....all were loved before their arrival.....adopted....
Just like we are into God's family when we ask Jesus. To be our Lord and Saviour ....adoption....a good thing....a glorious thing.....
Thank you so much for Our adoption into your family,,thought out....known....before we knew it...Your picture of it in our lives...
Psalm 139:13-16
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Esther 2:15
When the turn came for Esther (the young woman Mordecai had adopted, the daughter of his uncle Abihail) to go to the king, she asked for nothing other than what Hegai, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the harem, suggested. And Esther won the favor of everyone who saw her.
Romans 8:15
The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”
Romans 8:23
Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption to sonship, the redemption of our bodies.
Romans 9:4
the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
Galatians 4:5
to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship.
Ephesians 1:5
he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—
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