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Are You Adopted? Several years ago, I was working in my office when I received a phone call. It was a phone call from a man whom I had never met by the name of Daniel Whitworth. Daniel said, “David, I have an unusual question to ask you.” “Uh, okay” I responded. “What is your question?” “David, are you adopted?” “Well,” I responded, “I don’t think so, but I can ask my parents. Why do you ask?” Daniel began telling me that he and his two brothers were adopted out to different families when they were all very young. They could not keep in contact with one another as they were growing up because none of the brothers knew where the others had gone. Daniel said he had been able to find and get reacquainted with one of his brothers. Now they were trying to find their other long, lost brother. They wondered if I might be their brother. Daniel had seen my picture in the Magnolia Messenger, an informational and instructional religious publication edited by A.L. Franks of Kosciusko, MS. Daniel thought that there may be some family resemblance in our looks, so he decided to call and ask if I had been adopted as a child. My parents, Glenn & Sara Sargent, assure me that I am their biological child. But if I were not, they would still be my loving parents! They have taken care of me since I was born into the world, and they still bless me with their wisdom, their example, and even frequent meals and occasional help with household projects! (I am blessed to live about a mile away from my parents.) Even if I wasn’t related to them biologically, they have loved me as their son, and I have loved them as my parents. If I had not been born into their family, I would count it a privilege to be adopted by them. There is something very special about parents choosing a child to love and nurture as their very own. Adoption is a beautiful thing, especially the opportunity that each of us has to be adopted into God’s family! Each one of us had been “orphaned” because of our sin, but God loves us so much that He wants to “adopt” us into His family. Please read Romans 8:15-17 and Galatians 4:4-7. At just the right time, God sent His Son to redeem us from the bondage of sin and to give us the opportunity to be adopted into His family (the church) as His children -- with all the privileges, responsibilities, and rewards that He has for His children.
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Friend, God wants to adopt YOU into His family, but YOU have to accept His offer. Won’t YOU? P.S. Daniel, I may not be your brother in the flesh, but because of Jesus, you and I are brothers in the Lord! What a blessing to be “blood-related” (by the cleansing blood of Jesus) in God’s Family, the church! David A. Sargent, Minister
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