ADOPTION OF THE HEART

“When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.”

Psalm 27:10 KJV

For many years I really believed that my Mom and Dad didn’t love me or want me.  I went through a devastating crippling depression for over forty years because I believed it.  One happy day, I read this verse and tears of happiness flooded my eyes and heart.  God really loves us and cares about us.

Some people are unable to have children and some people due to circumstances beyond their control have to place their child for adoption.  Both of these situations are heartbreaking and only Jesus can heal a broken heart.  Whether we have children or not, all of us need to adopt people in our heart.

There are many people who are hurting, lonely, broken hearted and some who are even thinking about committing suicide as you read this devotion.  They need for us to adopt them in our heart.  If you’re like me, you don’t have the money to buy things for them but we can pray for them and encourage them.

Isn’t that what our Heavenly Father does for us?  When we invite Jesus into our heart to be our personal Saviour, we become part of the family of God.  Our Heavenly Father adopts us and loves us unconditionally.  There is nothing we could ever do to make Him stop loving us.  We have a tender loving Heavenly Father.

If you know someone who lives alone, adopt that person in your heart.  Pray for and encourage that person.  It will mean getting out of your comfort zone but isn’t that what Jesus did for us when He left His Father and home to die for us so we may be saved and live in Heaven for all eternity?  Open your heart today.

Joanne Lowe

April 19, 2017