Are you adopted?

 Are You Adopted?

 

To all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God.

JOHN 1.12

 

You received God’s Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, “Abba, Father.”

ROMANS 8.15

 

God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure.

EPHESIANS 1.5

 

Do you know any families who have experienced the miracle of adding to their family through adoption? Adoption is a legal process that creates a new, permanent relationship between a parent and a child where one didn’t exist before.

God loves adoption! It was his good idea. The Bible says that even before the creation of the world, God decided he would adopt us into his own family. You see, God knew that every human being since Adam and Eve would sin and that we would need a way to be brought back into his family. And to all who believe in him, he gives the right to become his children.

But not everyone has been adopted into God’s family. The Bible says that those who do not believe in Christ are called “children of wrath” and “sons of disobedience” (Eph 2.2-3, NASB). That’s what we used to be. But God takes people who once wanted nothing to do with him — and he gives them the special privileges of being his children!

Something incredible happens when we are adopted. We go from being outsiders to being beloved children. Because God is our daddy, we can cry out to him, confident that nothing can cause him to stop loving and caring for us. He’s our dad, and we’ve been permanently adopted into his family.