Adoption

Adoption. I read a great story the other day that some of you may have seen as well. A nurse adopted a little girl from the hospital that no one had visited during her time there. The little girl was born very premature and addicted to drugs because of the drug use of her mother. The nurse would visit her every day at the end of her shift.

After nine months, the nurse was given foster care rights to the little girl and took her home. Two years later, the nurse was able to legally adopt her and become her legal parent. Amazingly enough, the woman was unable to naturally get pregnant herself and couldn’t afford the treatments to do so. This got me thing about the word “adoption” and what it means to us as Christians.

The Apostle Paul loved the word “adoption” and used it when writing to the church in Rome, to the Ephesians and to the Galatians. When we become Christians, God adopts is into His family. We are given all the same rights that belong to His Son, Jesus Christ. We become joint heirs to all that is His. “The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs-heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.” - Romans 8:16-17.

We are adopted out of the family of Satan and into the family of God. “To redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.  And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba! Father!’  So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.” - Galatians 4:5-7.

Have you been adopted into the family of God?  Just like that little girl that was adopted by the loving nurse, her life was changed forever. You life and eternity can be changed forever by adoption into the family of God.

Have a great day and God bless.