God's Adoption Agency
"When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up."
(Psalm 27:10 KJV)
I am reading an excellent inspiring book written by a Christian author. One of
the characters in the story was thinking about how lonely she was and how
unwanted she felt when she was a child. Her mother had died giving birth to her
and her dad didn't want her so she was placed in a foster home. One of the
things that really hurt her and made her feel unwanted was that she never knew
when they were going to move her to a different foster home. She had no
stability in her life. All of us need stability in our lives.
I have received several emails over the last three and a half years from people
whose hearts are broken because they too were taken from one foster home and put
into another foster home countless times. I have never been in a foster home
however there were many times when I was a child that I wished that my parents
would have put me in a foster home because I felt unloved and unwanted. I want
to make it clear that I am not angry at my parents or bitter any more because I
know that they didn't feel loved themselves so they didn't know how to show love
to their children.
Several years ago, on a day when I was lonely, hurting, depressed and thinking
about my childhood and the love that I never received from my parents I
remembered the Scripture verse "When my father and my mother forsake me, then
the Lord will take me up." I knew that God had already adopted me into His
family when I accepted Jesus as my personal Saviour, but the comfort I felt when
I read that verse over and over on that day flooded my heart like a soothing
salve. Only Jesus could have comforted me on that day. Jesus has told us to
comfort each other but only Jesus can see into the hidden corners of our hearts
and see the pain, the loneliness, and the rejection that we feel and only Jesus
can take that devastating pain away.
I am so thankful for God's adoption agency. He adopts us into His family through
the redeeming blood of our precious Saviour. Not only does He adopt us into His
family; He adopts us into the hearts of other Christians. We don't know what is
going on in the lives of the people we sit next to in church. Joyce Landorf
Heatherley, an author and speaker, says on one of her teaching tapes about the
people sitting next to us in church "They look fine and they look darling but
inside they are hurting."
God may want you to adopt someone into your heart. So often when we think about
adoption, we think about children. We need to understand that there are many
adults who are hurting and who need to be adopted by someone who will love them
and encourage them. Are you willing to adopt someone into your heart? God may
use you to keep someone from committing suicide. Will you open your heart and
let Jesus fill your heart with compassion and love for people who need to be
adopted?
Joanne Lowe
December 29, 2008
joannelowe8@cox.net
www.joanne-ourprecioussaviour.blogspot.com