A Father's Heart

If you would have told me eight years nine years ago when my first child was born,” you will adopt”, I would have thought you were crazy. It’s amazing how our walk with the Lord is so progressional throughout our whole life. He is never through with us and no matter how many times we fail Him, He is faithful. In all my short comings, if I can grasp a fraction of that with my children, I know God will use it to launch them into their purpose and destiny. So many days, I feel like I don’t have control….I do not know what to do. The fact of the matter is it is a lack of surrender on my part. When I surrender myself as a father then my Father in Heaven can flow through me into my children.

Any call of God comes with trials and this journey for us has been no exception. We have faced controversy from many standpoints. In the realm of the purpose this is all irrelevant. With this said, I want to touch on one point of controversy. I have been told, “you will never love this child like your own…….its impossible”. First and foremost we are adopted as God’s own children. We are joint heirs with Christ. God has withheld nothing from His children. He found us as orphans, accepted us as we were and gave us a new life.

I have experienced this from another perspective as well. My mother remarried a man named Steve. He was a good man and was married to my mother for twelve years before they divorced. I was age fourteen. Steve always treated me as his own. He never mentioned me in any other term than as his son. Even after he and my mother divorced he still spent time with me, took me places, and played a father role in my life. He came to all my children’s functions and holidays. He encouraged me to go to college and to always strive for improvement. He always supported me even if he did not necessarily agree and encouraged me to do the right thing. Steve passed away last year at age 47. He left me an inheritance. I am not referencing financial inheritance. Because of Steve, I know I will love an adopted child as my own. Thank you Steve……you made a difference.

Please remember us in your prayers as we journey through this. We want you to know our heart and that Christ is the center of this. We are not doing this for any reason but to fulfill God’s purpose for us. We desire to please Him. At the end of the day when we lay our head down, nothing else matters. All other things will be ashes, but the works of God and the fruits of His spirit manifested in us will be the standing treasure with all the glory going to the Father. Thanks you for visiting our blog and I pray God plants a seed in your heart that you may fulfill your destiny. Be blessed.

Jason B