How do you like being adopted? I don't guess we think about it too much. But God does and has. In Acts 15:1-20, Peter says clearly, "Brethren, you know that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the word of the gospel and believe." We are chosen!
Paul goes on to say in Romans 8:15, "For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, 'Abba! Father!'" How often our hearts are drawn to cry out to Daddy!
Yes, God chose to take us into His family just because He loves us. He then sent Jesus to pay the adoption fee. "But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption as sons." (Galatians 4:4-5)
So Jesus is now our big brother, and we have all the privileges of living in the family of God.
Lord, show us what being Your daughter really means!
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