God's Family

A family I know welcomed the opportunity to host an Eastern European girl for a month. As their time together ended, this couple found themselves engaging in the long and costly process to adopt her, because in a few years she’d be deemed too old for her orphanage. My friends feared that she’d fall prey to human trafficking, which is the sad fate of a large number of the young women who ‘age out’ of the system. My friends extended the love of Christ to her and wanted her to enjoy being their daughter and heir.

Her story of adoption points to the deeper truth that those who have accepted the gift of Jesus as their Saviour are fully adopted into the family of God. As we see in Paul’s letter to the Galatians, we are no longer slaves but heirs; now we can call God our Father (vv. 7, 6). Our adoption has been made possible through the coming of God’s Son as a baby, “born of a woman” (v. 4). Jesus was born under the law so that He could redeem us and give us the gift of a secure family. If we believe in and follow Jesus, we have many sisters and brothers in Christ. We’ll never be alone, for not only do we have the presence of God with us, but we belong to the family of God. Amy Pye - Daily Bread