Our Motivation For Adopting
Today while filling out paperwork and an application related to our adoption process, we were asked this question, which seems to be fitting for a 'blog page post'. It's something I want everyone who asks us about our adoption story to know.
How has God led you to adopt?
The answer seems simple, yet in many ways so profound. Through His Word, the Bible, he tells his children, to take care of widows and orphans. That pretty much sums up our God prompting. Basically, He tells us to do it. Take care of them, somehow and in someway. That's it.
Now that 'take care' could look very different depending on which believer you ask. God is the one who calls us to obey, and He is the one who gives us the ability to do just that, in whichever capacity He equips. So for some, the 'take care' takes the form of adoption, for others it could be through volunteer work in churches, orphanages, after school programs, schools, etc. and for others it could be through giving financially to organization or individuals that provide direct care to those children.
We are simply one part of the body of Christ. One family, using the gifts God has equipped us with to simply bring glory back to Him through our obedience. Our gift is the gift of attachment, belonging, family and love. For without love, we are nothing. Those are things we feel qualified to give. Not perfectly, but imperfectly because we all fall short. But He who called us is faithful. He will accomplish the work He began in these children and in our hearts as well, despite our imperfections. Ultimately, these children belong to Him as do we and He will bring about His perfect will, in His time and in His way. We are simply walking one step at a time, asking for grace as we venture out in obedience to graft this little guy into our hearts and into our homes.
It's funny how I never before understood how you could truly begin loving someone so much without ever having met them. There's a mixture of both pleasure and pain when I come face to face with my growing love for this Little Peanut, for our Little Peanut. My heart aches, out of longing to have him home, and to begin knowing him and to begin the process (however slow) of being known by him. His voice, his laugh, his smile, his likes, his dislikes, his funny faces. God has begun to weave a connection between myself, my bio kids and this little guy that has truly stopped me in my tracks. I'm not sure if our little Andy is going to know what to do with all the attention and smothering, i mean loving, he will be receiving from all of us.
To God, truly, be the glory.
How has God led you to adopt?
The answer seems simple, yet in many ways so profound. Through His Word, the Bible, he tells his children, to take care of widows and orphans. That pretty much sums up our God prompting. Basically, He tells us to do it. Take care of them, somehow and in someway. That's it.
Now that 'take care' could look very different depending on which believer you ask. God is the one who calls us to obey, and He is the one who gives us the ability to do just that, in whichever capacity He equips. So for some, the 'take care' takes the form of adoption, for others it could be through volunteer work in churches, orphanages, after school programs, schools, etc. and for others it could be through giving financially to organization or individuals that provide direct care to those children.
We are simply one part of the body of Christ. One family, using the gifts God has equipped us with to simply bring glory back to Him through our obedience. Our gift is the gift of attachment, belonging, family and love. For without love, we are nothing. Those are things we feel qualified to give. Not perfectly, but imperfectly because we all fall short. But He who called us is faithful. He will accomplish the work He began in these children and in our hearts as well, despite our imperfections. Ultimately, these children belong to Him as do we and He will bring about His perfect will, in His time and in His way. We are simply walking one step at a time, asking for grace as we venture out in obedience to graft this little guy into our hearts and into our homes.
It's funny how I never before understood how you could truly begin loving someone so much without ever having met them. There's a mixture of both pleasure and pain when I come face to face with my growing love for this Little Peanut, for our Little Peanut. My heart aches, out of longing to have him home, and to begin knowing him and to begin the process (however slow) of being known by him. His voice, his laugh, his smile, his likes, his dislikes, his funny faces. God has begun to weave a connection between myself, my bio kids and this little guy that has truly stopped me in my tracks. I'm not sure if our little Andy is going to know what to do with all the attention and smothering, i mean loving, he will be receiving from all of us.
To God, truly, be the glory.
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