Adoption is a powerful way to impact the life of another. My husband is adopted and we plan to pass that blessing on by adopting in the future. We know that the child we adopt may have been through something traumatic or have been unwanted. And we also know we cannot be their whole solution to healing. We can love them as best we can. But only Jesus can repair the damage. He is the only one that truly fulfills us. He is the only one that can completely heal and fulfil them.
We all have damage in some way and have all felt unwanted at some point in our lives. But Jesus wants us. He loves us and wants us to be whole, healed and completed by him.
He adopted us all into his family when he choose to give up his life for us. He made a way for us to be a part of his family and there is always enough room for everyone in the family of God.
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. – 1 John 3:16
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