I got this from a guy who recently died in a car accident. It affected me deeply and made me think more about adoption. Granted, I need to get a wife first, but it made me think about it.
“This is Redemption. Derek, do you know how far I travelled to get you and bring you back? I had to be separated from my Son, in order to get you, just like you are separated from your children in order to get these boys. Do you know how expensive it was for Me to purchase you? It cost me everything. Do you know how broken, sick, damaged, twisted, dirty, smelly and hopeless you were? And at the end of it all, you had nothing to give me or add to me. I did it for you. I empitied myself and became nothing so that you could have it all. This is redemption.
My friend, adoption is redemption. It’s costly, exhausting, expensive and outrageous. Buying back lives costs so much. When God set out to redeem us, it killed Him. And when He redeems us, we can’t even really appreciate or comprehend it, just like Dimitri will never comprehend or fully appreciate what is about to happen to him. .. but ... he will live in the fruit of it. As his Daddy, I will never expect him to understand all of this or even to thank me. I just want to watch him live in the benefits of my love and experience the joys of being an heir in my family. This is how our heavenly “Papa” feels towards us.
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