The number one question that I get asked, over and over again, is "Why did you choose to adopt?" Now this is something that Ricky and I knew ahead of time that we would need to have an answer for..... we hoped and prayed that it would be asked. In the same way you pray that someone will ask you to give an answer for your hope! The answer is really simple actually, yet it has changed our lives forever.
It says in Romans 8:15 "For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father." What a true blessing, that without the natural process of birth, we are still able to be sons and daughters of the most gracious, loving, everlasting Father. That though this "adoption" we are heirs to the throne... that we have a home awaiting us, our forever home. Christ has changed our lives, forever.
I am not going to be so bold to say that by any means, we are Christ-like, but with all our hearts we desire to be..... that is the constant theme in our household. The reasons we constantly remind our boys to speak with respect, not only to us, but to each other. The reason we are on a narrow hard path to show the world a Christ-centered marriage. The reason we go over and over God's word with our boys, the reason behind what the world see as madness... is to be Christ-like. I am also not naive enough to think we will ever be close... but isn't the point to try? Isn't that what we have been charged to do by our Father?
So the answer is this: To bring a child into our home, out of love and by choice... is exactly what Abba has done for us... “His unchanging plan has always been to adopt us into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ. And this gave Him great pleasure” Ephesian 1:5
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