Greetings everyone! I just read a story earlier today about a couple who are in the process of adopting a child overseas. That is just amazing to me. My family and I have friends who have adopted children from the same country as this couple.
These couples (and lots of others as well) have physically adopted children. Some are from overseas and some are from the United States. This touches my heart in a tremendous way. Definitely praying for these families.
While these adoptions are physical in nature, our heavenly Father, God has also adopted us spiritually speaking. The apostle Paul told his readers (and us also) in Romans and Galatians that God has spiritually adopted us, that we have this adoption as His sons and daughters.
These families who have adopted these children have granted a father to the orphaned and abandoned. That is such a beautiful thing! God also has given all who follow Jesus a Father and an advocate.
Our God longs to be a Father to those who don’t have a father. He longs to protect those who have no one to protect them. I am thankful for those who have adopted children (both now and at any point in the past). They have truly become fathers to the orphaned and abandoned, someone who will protect those who have no protection. I hope and pray they and all of us will point them to our Heavenly Father, the Father and protector to the fatherless.
Comments, thoughts, questions, etc are always welcomed and encouraged.
God bless. Grace and Peace.
Zack
