Bro. Eddie Ministries Reading Plan: The Word Gives HopeSample

When God adopts us

It was an old custom in Rome where the father brings his son in court to acknowledge that he is his son. When done with it, his son will be entitled to all rights and privileges due to him. He becomes an heir to the wealth his father would leave behind when he dies.

But what if a parent does not acknowledge his or her child? What if a man does not marry the woman with whom he had a love child? What if parents just go away and leave their children in orphanage? What if children’s parents die when they are still young? We cannot imagine how hard life would be for them.

Life is hard when no one would provide for your needs. It is hard when no one would choose to be responsible over you. It is hard when you do not have the same rights and privileges bestowed to a legitimate child. It is also hard when your parents did not or could not leave you an inheritance should they die. And how harder it is when he that was supposed to give you a name did not. Indeed life would not be easy for those who did not have the chance to live a normal family life.

God knew these could happen. It is not impossible in a world that has fallen into sin. That is why it is not new to see children without parents to be there for them. So God put up the plan of adoption. It was not man’s mere idea. It was God’s. In fact He is the helper of the fatherless. (Psalm 10:14). He relieves and defends them. (Psalm 146:9; 10:18)

But do we know that all men are orphans spiritually? We cannot be called God’s children unless we go through what He requires.

On earth, the one who adopts takes the child as his own through legal means. Spiritual adoption is done in reverse. He would not take us as His children unless we let Jesus His only begotten Son in our lives. (John 3:16). Then we can become His children. John 1:12 says, “But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name.”

To receive Jesus makes us enter into a relationship with God. He makes us His sons and daughters. And He becomes our Father. (Romans 8:15). And because we are His children, He leads us by His Spirit. (Romans 8:14). Above all, He makes us joint heirs with Christ. That whatever Christ has, He also gives us. (Romans 8:17). We become heirs of His kingdom! (James 2:5)

Our life in this world, with evil as constant companion, is hard. On the other hand, how glorious it would be if God is with us as our Father. But before we could take hold of it, we must have Jesus in our hearts.

Receive Him now so that God the Father can adopt you. You will not regret becoming His child
Reflection:

1. If you are a parent, what are the things that you want your children to have? How are you going to make sure that they will have those?
2. If there is a thing that you long to receive from your father, what is it and why?


There is no other Father like God.