Adopted
Although my father and my mother have forsaken me, yet the Lord will take me up [adopt me as His child]. Psalm 27:10
Sometimes parents just fail their children. It is not usually on purpose, as they normally want the best for them. But what we fail to understand is that parents are perfectly imperfect people who, in trying to be perfect themselves, make mistakes. Parents don’t always have the best relationship with God and therefore miss His instruction on how to deal with the precious creations He’s given them.
I find it so interesting how our minds seem to only go back to the things our parents did wrong. Rarely do we focus on the things they did right. I know I can name situation after situation in which my parents did things that made me feel unprotected, uncared for and unfairly treated. As I am sitting here writing, I realize those moments take up space in my mind, space I could use for remembering all the good they did for me.
Now as a parent, I can understand the challenges my parents had with raising me and my siblings. I can now see where they were coming from based on their upbringing. This knowledge has softened my heart and caused me to be gracious and understanding about those difficult times. It does not always make it better but I can comprehend it better now. The scripture above says that although our father and mother may forsake us, God will never forsake us because He adopts us as His own.
I find that comforting. God will clean up all of the messes our parents made in our lives if we let Him. When He adopts us as His own children, He does not leave us the way we are. He moves us into a healing process to rid us of our old hurts and pains, things that have been hidden away in our hearts. It means that He may challenge us to face those difficult and often hurtful situations from our past to get us to our best future. God is calling me to talk with my parents about some difficult stuff, and while I am not excited about it, I know it is for my good. We can’t move into the greatness He has for us until we walk with Him through those buried pasts. When those demons are gone, we can be all that He ordained us to be! Amen!
Affirmations: Matthew 10:20; Luke 24:32; Ephesians 6:19, Isaiah 55:11
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