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Adobpted Sons

by Jerry Ousley  
4/15/2016 / Christian Living

I have a nephew-in-law who fell deeply in love with my niece. Backing up a few years, she had married and over the course of only three or four more short years gave birth to two sons. Then tragedy struck and their father was killed in a freak accident. They had been cutting trees and one of them fell on him, instantly snuffing the life from his body.

For a couple of more years she lived alone raising her two sons. Then she met Kelly and fell in love. No wonder, he is a remarkable man. He's extremely smart, mechanically minded and picks up on things very quickly. He's gentle and loving, happy and fulfilled but he can also become very aggressive if necessary to defend his family a near perfect man.

Together they had another boy of their own but before that he made those two boys from her previous marriage his. He treated them as his own children and they grew to love him. He has become their Dad. He's just as fair with them as he is with the son they had in their own marriage. There could be many arguments about biology, and the natural father but folks Kelly has become their father. He treats them as sons, pays for the things they need and provides for them. Not only that but that he loves them.

I've always been of the mindset that the individual raising a child, giving them the love they need and providing for them, whether they are a natural child or an adopted child, is truly a father or a mother. They may not have given birth to the child, and they may not have naturally descended from their father, but they have stepped in and fulfilled that role. To me they are the grafted in, natural parent.

Many children have been taken from abusive homes where they were mistreated in a host of ways. They have been neglected, physically, and emotionally and often have been sexually abused. That was not what God meant for them but sin in the lives of their natural mothers and fathers has resulted in this horrible action. When adults come along who are willing to love, care for and nurture these children the way God meant for parents to do then in my opinion they have become the parent of that child.

Those of us who have come into the Kingdom of God are all adopted. Now I realize that for the sake of this article this is a broad statement because we must consider that mankind was originally created by God and we also need to take in the aspect that the Israeli people are God's chosen people. Still the majority of believers today are not Jewish by birth. We have been adopted into the Kingdom because of the sacrifice of Christ. Listen to the words of Paul in Romans 8:14-15: "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father.'" We have come into the Kingdom of the Lord by adoption.

Alienated from God by sin, we were much like the afore mentioned children of abuse. The world and the devil have used us, abused us and left us alone, cold, spiritually naked and destitute. We were living in fear. We didn't know which way to turn. To many this was such a way of life that they didn't even realize the position they were (or are) in. They struggle, walking through life blindly not knowing the love of a Father who looks out for them. Many have taken on false fathers in the form of religion. Some have become so bitter that they deny the very existence of a Heavenly Father. They have come to believe that this life we live, most miserable as it can be, is all we have and once it is over there is no more. What a sad pitiful state in which they live. Our hearts must go out to them in compassion, even if they hate us and desire to wipe us off the face of the earth.

But there is hope. Our God, because of Jesus Christ, has brought to mankind a plan of adoption. We call it salvation and truly we are saved from such a life as we have described. We are given a new position one of a son of God equally an heir along with Christ Jesus (see Romans 8:17). He has bathed us, clothed us, given us hope and a reason not to fear because now we are safe in His arms. We have been adopted into a loving home and have hope of being with our Father for eternity.

If you haven't been adopted yet I have good news; our God never gives up until the final breath has left our bodies. We can come to Him. We can be adopted sons of God. All we must do is believe it, accept it, repent of our past and say yes to His question, "Will you become My son?"

Jerry D. Ousley is the author of ?Soul Challenge?, ?Soul Journey?, ?Ordeal?, ?The Spirit Bread Daily Devotional and his first novel ?The Shoe Tree.? Visit our website at spiritbread.com to download these and more completely free of charge.

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