Adoption
“Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.” Isaiah 56 v 5
Many babies are born into families where their parents celebrate their arrival and they receive an individual name and a family name. Other children have different routes into families. They are adopted into the family and take their new names that way. The child does not make the choice – the choice is made for them. The adults voluntarily take the child as their own. They enter freely into the relationship with that child.
As grown people we can also freely choose to be adopted! We can choose our own family. This does not mean that we abandon our other familial relationships; this means that we have the ability, the power, to choose God as our parent (John 1 v 12).
When we believe in God He gives us the right, the privilege to become His child. Imagine that! The Creator of this world gives me, you, and anyone who chooses to believes in Him, the right and the power to adopt Him as our Father. What an amazing situation. God is all-powerful and He gives us power to choose Him as our family. Through adoption we become likened to a child who was produced directly by God (John 1 v 12). We have a re-birth through belief.
God chose us from the beginning of time (Deut 7 v 6-9) but we have to consciously choose Him for ourselves. He will never force Himself into our lives. All He wants for us is to be reunited in peace. If we believe in what He says and in what He has done for us (John 3 v 15-17) then we can accept and freely enter into a nurturing relationship with Him. It takes faith to believe that God made a plan to reconcile His family. He sees the individual worth of each person. He feels love for each person. He sees the everlasting brilliance and potential of you and me. He wants us to be returned to His family. For this end He willingly sacrificed His only Son to open the way for all His other lost children to return home. What a love! What a God!
There is no comparable offer to join any family anywhere in this world. God has chosen you now He wants you to choose Him. What will you do?
©MHMorgan 2008
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