ADOPTION

So here’s the thing, when I grow up I want to be a mom to 5 children, a boy, a girl and then a set of twins. And when the twins are in matric, I want to adopt a little girl. Can people not judge me? Thanks.  The concept of adoption is not as easy as it sounds; it’s a sensitive thing to do and demands a lot of responsibility. I have gone to the lengths of googling the different agencies in South Africa and I now know what my husband and I will have to endure to bring our bundle of joy back home.  I actually cant wait, even though it’s almost 2 decades away.  God has entrusted me with a heart that just adores and cherishes children, in all the stages of their lives and he is still working on smaller character traits I seem to lack a little like patience. Oh Lord help me, my husband comes home and finds I’ve locked them out on the balcony because they wasted my time lol.

Adoption as it stands is really taking responsibility and ownership of something or someone who was originally not belonging to you. It is taking ownership indeed. It involves a lot of love and devotion. If there is no full commitment from your part, the process really just fails.  The definition on the Adoption S.A website says:” the legal act o permanently placing a child with a parent or parents other then the child’s biological mother or father. A legal adoption order has the effect of terminating the parental rights of the birth mother or father while transferring the parental rights and responsibilities to the adoptive parents. The adopted child must, for all intents and purposes, be regarded as the child of the adoptive parents.”

Now all of this made me understand the true meaning of Galatians 4:4-8. It truly blesses me that in as much as I want to bring into our hearts and home, a little vulnerable baby girl, whom God will enable me to raise into a virtuous woman of God, he did the very same for me. This just, how do I say, it blesses me. I find so much pleasure in the thought of his love for you and I. See, this God is purely awesome, don’t be convinced otherwise. He is just God all the time. Here is Galatians 4:4-8 so you get what I am raving about. Enjoy: 

Galatians 4:4  But when the proper time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to [the regulations of] the Law, 5  To purchase the freedom of (to ransom, to redeem, to atone for) those who were subject to the Law, that we might be adopted and have sonship conferred upon us [and be recognized as God’s sons]. 6  And because you [really] are [His] sons, God has sent the [Holy] Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba (Father)! Father! 7  Therefore, you are no longer a slave (bond servant) but a son; and if a son, then [it follows that you are] an heir by the aid of God, through Christ. 8  But at that previous time, when you had not come to be acquainted with and understand and know the true God, you [Gentiles] were in bondage to gods who by their very nature could not be gods at all [gods that really did not exist].