Our Adoption Is Sure

July 16

Adoption is the closest thing to God’s love in all the realm of man’s relationships. Of course, it is undeniable that lovers have deep love for one another and dwell in a realm of intimacy no one else can share. Yes, biological parents adore their offspring and would go to any length to guard and guide them and to supply all they need to have joy and abundant provision of all earthly needs.

But though these relationships are indeed abounding in love, they do not approximate the love of the Holy One for His people. Just as He has diligently sought for the lost among us and just as He has paid a great price for His “unspeakable gift to us,” II Corinthians 9:15, so have adoptive parents diligently sought a child to love—and so have they paid a great price for the privilege of doing so.

Consider these few verses and their profound implication in the lives of mere mortals who are stained by sin:

“The Father has loved us so much that we are called the children of God…” I John 3:1 proclaims a truth that is beyond our conceptualization! In fact, some people are so astounded by the thought of an almighty God condescending to adopt the children of men into His own family that they disbelieve it entirely.

Or consider Galatians 4:6, 7 that says, “Since you are God’s children, He has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts and that Spirit cries out within you, ‘Abba, Father ‘ …And God will give you the blessings He has promised because you are His child.” Our Heavenly Father loves us so much that His Spirit dwells within us and affirms there that He is our Father and our Provider.

The Word goes on to say in Romans 8:14, “The true children of God are those who let God’s Spirit lead them.” He who dwells within us longs to lead us aright as we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28) in Christ Jesus.

Yet until Christ comes again we will not fully understand all to which we are heir. The Beloved Apostle tells us in I John 3:2, “…now we are children of God and we have not yet been shown what we will be in the future, but when Jesus comes again we will be like Him, for we shall see Him as He really is.”

With just these few words of assurance, can we not press forward in faith, knowing in Whom we have believed and being persuaded “that He is able to keep all we have committed to Him…” II Timothy 1:12; can we not believe the wonderful truth that “our adoption is sure,” Romans 8:23.