Easter/ Waiting Children Post

Easter is a wonderful time here and we are ready to celebrate.  Christmas and Easter are holidays that we wait for all year round.  They are wonderful times for us to teach our children so much.  We of course have family time that is important and we are so sad that our 5 Bulgarian Blessings are not here to celebrate with us. 

More important than "how" we celebrate is WHY we celebrate.  We are really celebrating the ransom that was paid for OUR ADOPTION.  The cost to bring us into God's family was so HUGE that it could only be paid by God sending His Son to DIE.  Oh my what a price!!  I can't imagine.  He DIED so that I could be adopted!!!!  Does our world get that???  Do our churches get that????  Do Christians get that????  Do you get that??? Do I get that???? 

I often hear about the high cost of adoption.  People talk about it as if it is some reason thing.  They act as if it is surprising.  Adopting one child from Bulgaria costs about $21,000.  That is a lot of money to us and most people.  Adding children to the adoption is not nearly as costly, but there is cost.  People often bring up the cost.  It is criticized by opponents of adoption.  Most adoptive parents think that it shouldn't be so costly.  Most of us would do it over and over if we could.  Yet there is that BIG amount of money that you have to come up with.  We also often hear it referred to as the "ransom".  Its like your child is being held hostage and you have to come up with that ransom to bring them home.  It is a "ransom" because it is paid for their freedom.

Ransom - isn't that would Jesus paid for us!!!  He found us to be "worth it" and each and every waiting child is too.  He died for each one of them, just as He did for us.  Each of them was made in His image, just as we were.  He paid that price for us, because of OUR SINS.  The waiting children didn't DO anything to end up orphans and in need.  They were just born. 

So for all those who think adoption is just "too costlly", so was mine!  If you are saved by the blood of Jesus, then your adoption was costly too.  None of us are asked to give up any of our children currently home and in our care in order to adopt another.  We don't have to throw them out, let alone have them DIE!  So many people wonder about taking material things away from their current kids in order to care for another child or save for their adoption.  HELLO!!!  Heaven to Christians here!!  God had His Son die, so I think our kids can do without iphones and big vacations!!! 

Jesus died!  He didn't stay dead, PRAISE GOD!  He overcame death and rose from the dead!  We serve a living Savior.  That doesn't change the fact though that He suffered a horrible death and even worse the separation from His Father as OUR sins were put upon Him.  All of that so that we could be adopted into the Family of God!

Celebrate Him!  Not with eggs, chocolate, and family alone though!!  He doesn't want your chocolate (though my kids love it)!  He wants your LIFE!  If He died for us, then we should be pleased to live for Him.  We should want to be His Hands and His Feet!!  We should want to ADOPT, because we as adopted children should know the Hope and Love and Need. 

This Easter don't forget what it really all means!  It is about adoption.  It is about love.  It is about sacrafice.  It is about Jesus!  Now what are you going to do about it?


Kristopher


Sarah

Denny


Denver


Gavin


Isabelle















Drew


Madden


Mitko


Kaleb

Andrue















Kyle


Kody


Drake

They all are hoping that you really "get" Easter this year!

The Hidden Treasures Auction ends tonight.  There are some great items up for bid.  I'd love for you to go bid and it is a step in the direction of caring for orphans.  I'd much rather you adopt though.  Children are waiting and they are God's children.