the beauty of adoption

adopt- ORIGIN late 15th cent.: via French from Latin adoptare, from -ad 'to' + optare 'choose'

i'm not adopted. and i've never adopted a child. so i'm really not the most qualified to speak on the matter, but this is my blog, so i'm going to! but feel free to disagree, correct, or add!

i think adoption is a beautiful thing. to take someone else's child and raise him or her up as their own. it's obviously something i can't fully understand...but that's what i think is so amazing about it. when i read on a parents blog the longing and desire they have for their child that they are waiting to bring home, a child that many of them have only physically had contact with a few times, i can only believe the desire to adopt comes from God. where else would it come from?? to meet a child, or maybe having not yet met them, but have such a love that you could say "i want to bring you home as my son". these children all have different stories- some of them are at orphanges because no one loved them, some are there because someone loved them enough to try and do the best thing. but however they got there, they all now have something in common- a need. a need for a family, a need for a home. so for someone to come and say, "my family will be your family, my home will be your home." is a beautiful thing!! and is it not what Christ has done for us??

"God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 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." Galations 4:4-7. This verse tells us that we are born under the law and as slaves. But Christ has redeemed us so that we can be adopted as sons, no longer under the law, no longer slaves- but sons of God!! under the law we had no hope to be saved. "For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit." Titus 3:3-5. We are sons of the Most High God!! He has take us in as his family, welcomed us into his home, given us his name, and made us heirs to all that He is!! "the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God."...but we have not yet obtained our full redemption..."and not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies." romans 8:21;23.

Do not grow weary in your waiting!! The adoption will be more than worth it!!