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Everyone wants to be part of a family. In fact, God created the human family as the perfect representation of the Divine family. Quite literally, the human family is the image of God in the earth. Yet, in practice, in this fallen world, family dynamics don’t always play out as planned. As humanity careens towards the end-of-days, the assault on the family has intensified. It makes sense when you think about it; God’s plan is for the family to represent His image in the earth. And the enemy’s chief strategy is to ruin that image—hence the wholesale destruction of the family unit and family values.
There is an epidemic of un-parented and under-parented children in the world, but none of it surprises God. Satan’s assault on the family runs deep, destroying marriage and even the desire for marriage; gender and even the idea of gender; and children and even the birth of children. Again, no surprise to God. From the beginning God had a plan; He is the Father to the fatherless! And He institutes His plan by way of adoption. The magnificence of adoption is that it negates the need to be born of a certain bloodline to be considered a child of God. Your born-again encounter served as the legal paperwork for your adoption; human orphans are handpicked and invited into the family of God. It is the perfect demonstration of God’s furious and astonishing love. And, our capacity to love God comes only because He first loved us.
And finally something else emerges which staggers the mind. You were not just adopted by God as His child, which makes you an heir to His kingdom; you became a joint heir with Christ. Your inheritance in God is an equal inheritance as promised to His only begotten Son! And that means God has placed you in the firstborn position along with Y’shua. That is who you really are! So, the next time you feel like an orphan, alone and unwanted, meditate on this utterly beautiful thought. Adoption is a choice which requires a selection process, and God searched the pool of orphans in which you were swimming and He chose you!
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