After years of 'liking the idea of adoption' but not owning it, God dropped the proverbial final straw that broke my stubborn and selfish back bent against rescuing the fatherless. He used this article by David E. Prince to be that straw. For weeks, God brought His heart for the poor, weak, and fatherless across my path almost daily. Then-BAM! Out of the providential blue, I was looking for the Gospel Coalition's statement of faith and this article was highlighted on GC's homepage. After reading it, God sealed the adoption deal in my heart and compelled me to live out the Gospel in joyful obedience. Here is one quote, based on James 1:27, that challenged my manliness: "To visit the fatherless is to deliver and rescue the fatherless. How do you do that? The most important way is to give them a father. Men, you are called to lead the charge. Pure religion calls for testosterone, courage, boldness. It's going to take courage to march into dark, difficult, and disease-ridden places, and to take a child and say, "You will be mine." It's going to take courage to march in to some neighborhood here in our own town and to take some child who has all kinds of baggage and say, 'You will be mine.'" I knew that God was asking me to put hands and feet to my gospel understanding and manifest a father's heart through making a child mine through adoption.
Because that is exactly what my Heavenly Father did for ME!! -James
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