I'd love to write a happy feel good post but this just isn't it. Honestly as a Christian it's just embarrassing. So if you want to avoid conviction, go ahead and check out now.
I said in my last post that I would spend some more time addressing the question "why adopt?"
Honestly, its pretty simple. There are an estimated 132 million orphans in the world. We are a family. We have a home. They have neither. Adoption is the answer. It drives me crazy that adopting families have to spend so much time defending their decision to adopt, especially amongst other Christians!
Really? Have we all forgotten how we were saved? Were you born into the family of God? Or maybe, you were broken, unwanted, alone...and Someone saw value in you. Someone was willing to risk His own pain, discomfort, vulnerability...was willing to give up riches, to pay the ultimate price...all so you could be...ADOPTED.
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, 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
"For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. So you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, "Abba, Father."For his Spirit joins with our spirit to affirm that we are God's children." Romans 8:14-16
"But when the right time came, God sent his Son, born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that he could adopt us as his very own children. And because we are his children, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, prompting us to call out, "Abba, Father." Galations 4:4-6
There are some common traps we Christians fall into. The first is that our calling is insignificant(just a mother, just a teacher... ) We envy those with "greater" ministries- because we were called to stay at home instead on moving overseas or called teach a Sunday school class rather than preaching to the multitudes. We forget that we are all part of a bigger picture and our job is to be the very best_____ that we can and do everything with excellence as unto the Lord.
However, the even greater trap is that because we were called to be ______ we are exempt from other ministries. What a great job the enemy has done...and we let him. We have convinced ourselves that taking care of the orphan is someone else's calling, so much so that there are an estimated 132 million orphans in the world!!! That's just embarrassing! But but but... Look at our church! The sanctuary is overflowing! Look at this community event we put on! See how we donated to the food bank and pray for this missionary and volunteered in this fundraiser?... All while the most vulnerable are left helpless because we are too scared to step out of our comfort zones. Because we are so caught up in material things that we can't possibly pay the ransom for a lonely hurting child? Because we are too busy, too tired, too old, too young, too poor, too ....disobedient, selfish???
So if you are waiting to hear the call, here you go
"Defend the weak and the fatherless;
uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed." Psalm 82:3
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me." Matthew 25:40
"Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." James 1:27
" So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin." James 4:17
Please visit our Family Sponsorship Page to see where we are at in our adoption journey.
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