Valley Creek Baptist Church, Hueytown
On July 19, 2010, my life changed forever. Sitting in a hotel lobby in Jinan, China, my wife and I waited with nervous anticipation. We sat there for what seemed like hours until finally a car pulled up, the door opened and into the lobby came the cutest little 6-year-old boy you have ever seen. His clothes were dirty and his shoes were too small, but he had on the best outfit he could find for this special day. Though I had never seen him before, I instantly loved him. For the first time in his life Guo Fu Feng would have someone to call “Daddy.”
His life had not been an easy one. He was abandoned by his parents when only 10 months old, left with only the clothes on his back. Fung Fung, as he was called, was taken to an orphanage where he would live until the day he came to our hotel. For more than a year, Lorrie and I had only pictures, stories, medical reports and dreams of how things would be on this “gotcha” day. The moment that we took him in our arms, his days of being an orphan were over.
Today Fung Fung is now Brodie Blackwell. In one day he got a new name, a new family, new clothes, his own room and a future.
We all have so much in common with my son. We are spiritual orphans separated from our Father. We need to be adopted in order for our future to be secured and our life to have purpose.
Paul says, “God sent Him (Jesus) to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law, so that He could adopt us as His very own children. And because you Gentiles have become His children, God has sent the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, and now you can call God your dear Father. And since you are His child, everything He has belongs to you” (Gal. 4:5–6; 7b).
Has there ever been a time in your life when you, like my son, stepped into a new family, were embraced by your Father and found your eternal home?
You can do that today by trusting in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. You will find the life you have been longing for and the Father who loved you enough to pay the ultimate sacrifice to bring you home.
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