This week we are celebrating Easter. But there are words echoing in my head still from Christmas movies. In “It’s a Wonderful Life,” George Bailey is in the midst of a nervous breakdown and he yells to his wife, “Why do we have to have all these kids!”
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After two years of fostering, I can tell you that this is a hard process on the children and the fostering family. It is hard work. Love must be a choice because the feelings will not be enough.
We just got the word from the judge that our family has officially grown because the adoptions of these two children are final. Our family has grown from a family of four to a family of six.
In Genesis 15, God cuts a covenant promise with Abram. God chooses Abram to be the father of a great and vast nation with innumerable descendants. Abram becomes the father of a growing family. The family is messy and the family is full of people who make big time mistakes. They experience laughter together and they experience pain and suffering together. Just when they think their family is complete, God adds more kids to the family.
The book of Ephesians in the New Testament is a letter that Paul wrote to the church in a certain region. The letter’s original audience was primarily non-Jewish people. They are people that are not from Abraham’s big family.
These non-Jewish people or Gentiles were not part of the promise and covenant from Genesis 15. They have believed in Jesus so they have a restored relationship to God.
What does God do with all these people who are now His children but are not of the bloodline of the original family? He adopts them…
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