The gospel redeems and saves and ratifies and purifies and welcomes and adopts.
The gospel is one of the largest reasons we want to adopt.
Because we have experienced the redemption and salvation and ratification and purification and welcome and adoption by the work of Jesus on the cross, our hearts will never be the same and we understand that it doesn't end here or today.
I've read a lot of secular literature on adoption lately. It's not bad or unhelpful or invalid, but it's missing the Gospel. It's missing a degree of hope and joy found in and through adoption. Joy and Hope characterize hearts rooted in the gospel and will get us through the difficult seasons adoption is sure to bring. Secular literature I've found doesn't speak to that (obviously) and the reader is left, often, discouraged and numb to the beautiful act of adoption.
Because God calls us his kids and Jesus is not ashamed to call us family in the gospel, adoption is possible and right and good, even in the face of neglect, abuse, family structures, challenges, financial burdens, jealousy, and secular opinion on the matters of birth order and twinning and a host of other conundrums.
The gospel is why we're adopting
The gospel is how we'll adopt
The gospel will get us through
The gospel will be seen increasingly in our family because of adoption
it will be SO hard. there will be SO many challenges.
But, there's the Gospel.
...so true. Thanks for the reminder.
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