“Now you are no longer a slave but God’s own child. And since you are his child, everything he has belongs to you.” ~Galatians 4:7
My dad owns a lot of neat things. Several nice rifles, two houses, several acres of land, a boat and four wheeler- I could keep going. While I would never want to hurry the day, one day all of his stuff will be my stuff. He’s my dad and I’m his only son. Do you know someone who is adopted? I don’t know how it works in real life, but I was watching Judging Amy once and she was handling an adoption. The scene was powerful and had a lot of impact on me. During the process she asks the parents to affirm their understanding that this child they were adopting was going to become their child with all the rights and privileges a child would have.
Because of the gift of Jesus and our faith in him, we are adopted as children of God. He becomes our Father and we are heirs with Jesus of all that He has. We may be tempted to believe that we are somehow lacking because we are still sinful and have “only been adopted.” Consider this, when a couple adopts a child it is because they do not have a child or because they want to give a child in some special circumstance a home. Any natural born children may make some sacrifices to welcome a new brother or sister, but they are not sacrificed. Think about the amazing thing that God did. He sacrificed his son, so that we could be adopted. If God was willing to sacrifice His son to adopt me, why is it that I struggle so much to have faith in his loving provision in my life?
Billy Wint
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