Since we have embarked on God’s journey for our family and
adopting here in the United States I have heard a certain statement more and
more, and honestly it offends me, it offends my children, and I think it
probably makes our sweet Lord’s heart hurt a little too.
Before I tell you the statement, please know that this does
not come out of anger, but love, and a purpose to educate and get rid of just
plain old ignorance.
So below is a version of the statement I and my husband have
heard:
“I am so glad you are adopting in the US this time, I really
don’t like it when people adopt out of the country.”
Ugh…I cringe even typing that.
God’s Truth
John 3:16
For God so loved the World
that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life.
We all know this verse right, so do you see anywhere in this
verse that it says For God so loved the United States? No, and you won’t ever, because he loves the
world. After all he did create it and
everything in it.
So one reason I don’t like that statement is because my God,
your God if you call yourself a Christian, is not contained to the United
States. I will never keep him contained
here and neither should you.
Do I think that the hurting children of the Unites States
need our care? ABSOLUTELY! I would never argue or disagree with
that. But please don’t be so close
minded to think that they are the only children we AS CHRISTIANS (Notice I didn’t
say we as United States Citizens) are intended to take care of. Besides knowing
there are children here in need, I also KNOW that every hurting child in the
WORLD needs our help and they need to know the saving grace of Jesus.
Every
Single
One
Of
Them.
I also know that God willed and specifically hand-picked our
children for our family. He has shown
that to me time and time again.
So put yourself in my child’s spot.
Can you imagine how my children would feel if
they heard you say this statement to us?
They know they were born in another country and they have family in
those countries. Whether or not you let
your heart be changed about this statement please be sensitive to my children
about it.
I don’t know about you but I take the Bible, God’s word to
us, quite literally, and I have never once seen him specifically call us to
take care of our “Own” in the States. Have
you?
"Religion
that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after
orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by
the world."
James
1:27
"And
whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me."
Mathew
18:5
"A
Father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in His holy dwelling.
God sets the lonely in families…"
Psalm
68:5-6a
"I
was hungry and you fed me, I was thirsty and you gave me a drink, I was
homeless and you gave me a room, I was shivering and you gave me clothes, I was
sick and you stopped to visit, I was in prison and you came to me…Then the King
will say, 'I'm telling the solemn truth: Whenever you did one of these things
to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me---you did it to me.'"
Mathew
25: 35-36, 40
"A
man makes a plan in his heart, but God directs his path."
Proverbs
16:9
Just some truth, and a song. Bebo Norman is one cool dude.
Amen, sister! Adoption is redemption, regardless of country, color, etc...
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