Perfect Placement
Just received this email from a couple who attended a Weekend To Remember last year:
I really should share with you. Â Last year, my husband and I attended because we had been struggling with each other due to infertility and many problems with adoptions. Â We had had so many ups and downs with the adoption that it was taking a toll on us. Â The week-end was amazing and we left renewed. Â At the conference I had put a prayer in the prayer box for “the perfect placement of our daughter” as we were pursuing an adoption of a little girl in Taiwan. Â We left on Sunday, feeling really good and then on Monday received a horrible e-mail stating that there were new requirements that we did not meet for the adoption (after 10 months of turning in paperwork, sending money and going through the home study). Â We felt like God had turned his back on us. Â Really I’m not sure we as a couple would have been strong enough to have endured this had we not just attended the conference. Â To make a long story short, we then found out we were pregnant in October and in January found out it is a girl. Â I now realize God did answer our prayer of the perfect placement of our daughter, just not the way we thought it would happen. Â Praise God. Â Thank you so much for offering such a wonderful week-end.
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How Great a Love!
This morning we were looking at the first three verses of 1 John 3. Here is what the first half of verse 1 says: “See what kind of (how great the) love the Father has given to (lavished on) us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are!”
I must admit that I often struggle with really believing this because I know my sin. Why should God choose to love me? This verse speaks of a gift so precious that the part of me that has become cynical struggles to embrace it. When the day comes that we move into the new Jerusalem and walk the streets of gold with the redeemed of all the ages, will the Lamb who is the lamp actually desire to be with me? It is too much to hope for!
But that’s the glory of the gospel, isn’t it? While we were still God’s enemies He saved us and adopted us as His children. John says in verse 2: “Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.” And John tells us in Revelation that “He will wipe away every tear.” Sounds pretty intimate to me.
Finally, remember that’s the kind of love that our families are to be reflections of. Do we love our kids that much?
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