The central and over arching reason that Sarah and I are adopting is because of the glory of God. That is the reason we do everything. I’m preaching through Ephesians at Crew these days, so let me show this in Ephesians 1:3-6.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.
That is why we’re adopting. This verse clearly tells us that as God in eternity past, before anything was created chose to demonstrate his glory. He wanted to declare to everything and everyone everywhere how magnificently beautiful and excellent and perfect he was. And in His infinite wisdom and mind, he asked the question, how will my glory be most powerfully displayed? And his answer was: I will predestine in love through Jesus Christ that there will be adoption. Adoption is predetermined in love and comes from God. Adoption is through Jesus Christ. It results in the praise of his glory. So adoption is from God, through God, and to God.
So, as people, who are made in God’s image and called to mirror that to our world. Being people who have been loved, chosen, and adopted by God for his glory, why wouldn’t we adopt as well? We want to adopt like God adopts.
Obviously, there are other reasons:
• Provide a loving, safe, and secure home for a child who doesn’t have one.
• Make a difference in the African AIDS crisis, by adopting a child who lost their parents to AIDS.
• Adopt from a strained society that has 4-6 million orphans it is struggling to care for.
But the central reason is a gospel one. We are adopting because we are Christians, plain and simple.
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