God's rescue plan that unfolded that special night over 2,000 years ago (for it was really begun before the foundation of the world) is what we celebrate at Christmas. God's Son came in flesh to bring forgiveness, restoration, redemption and adoption.
To be right with God the judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater.
J.I. Packer, Knowing God
Horizontal adoption (adopting our sweet girl) is a beautiful picture of our vertical adoption brought about by God's rescue plan.
You see, our little one was literally rescued last Christmas. She has been in an orphanage for a whole year waiting for her adoption into our family -- her forever family. We have sacrificed to get her. We have done this gladly.
And so while we will celebrate Christmas Stateside this year without our sweet girl, we know the day is coming quickly when we will be asked to come adopt her. Our lives will be forever changed. But we will also have to come home without her while final documents are prepared. She will legally be ours, but the reality of her new status as our daughter will not be realized. Yet.
Until gotcha day!
The day when she leaves the orphanage, never to return. The day we sweep her up in our arms and bring her home to enjoy all the love of her forever family.
Christ's birth over two millennia ago was wonderful, significant, and necessary. He lived the perfect life I could never live. He took God's just wrath over my sin on the cross. He bore that wrath and separation from God so that I don't have to!
Now by faith, I look with anticipation to Christmas Future -- that "gotcha day" when the reality of my spiritual adoption and position as a daughter of the King will be fully known and enjoyed.
The day when she leaves the orphanage, never to return. The day we sweep her up in our arms and bring her home to enjoy all the love of her forever family.
Christ's birth over two millennia ago was wonderful, significant, and necessary. He lived the perfect life I could never live. He took God's just wrath over my sin on the cross. He bore that wrath and separation from God so that I don't have to!
Now by faith, I look with anticipation to Christmas Future -- that "gotcha day" when the reality of my spiritual adoption and position as a daughter of the King will be fully known and enjoyed.
{Our adoption paperwork cleared the U.S. Embassy on December 4th, and now we are just waiting for the Ethiopian courts to let us know what day to be in country to adopt our sweet girl! Exciting days ahead for our family in 2015. Thanks for your prayers and support along the way.}
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