We are still busy making plans to travel. We will be leaving in two weeks. As the day of meeting Eli draws closer, I've been thinking more and more about him. He has no idea how his life is about to change. The orphanage has been showing him pictures of our family and telling him basic information about us, but really he has no idea that he is about to be lovingly received into our family as a son and a brother. His life will be totally different because of this adoption.
The Lord has been reminding me of what a great adoption has taken place in my life. I was raised by my birthparents and had a great childhood, never questioning my place within my physical family. But spiritually...I was an orphan. I was fatherless. I was more than a stranger and a foreigner. I was an enemy of Christ.
Yet, while I was still a sinner Christ died for me. When I was young, I didn't know it, but plans were made for my adoption. I was lovingly accepted into the family of God as a son. And that...that has made all the difference in my life.
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