Adoption

 If you ever want to realize how little control you have adopt, and further, adopt internationally! After being in the process for 2 years, we FINALLY have a referral! We FINALLY know our kiddo's name, have seen her face, know her history, personality, likes and dislikes. Already we love and adore her, our beautiful daughter! And yet...

And yet she doesn't even know what we exist. She doesn't know there's a family who's worked so hard and moved what feels like Heaven and Earth to bring her home, a family who anxiously and joyfully awaits for when we finally get to bring her home! While we feel so well acquainted with this precious child, she knows nothing of us.

And so often is our relationship with God. Long before we knew of God's very existence, He knew everything about us, down to the hairs on our head. And more than simply knowing us, He loves and adores us! And He moved literal Heaven and Earth to bring us into His family by sending Jesus to redeem us and bring us into His family. How amazing is it to be adopted by the eternal, glorious God?!?
For He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before Him in love. He did this by predestining us to adoption as His legal heirs through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure of His will. Ephesians 1:4-5

But when the set time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Beacuase you are His sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls our, "Abba, Father". Galatians 4:4-6

Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don't be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows. Luke 12:7