What Drives Us

God the Son rose from His throne in Heaven. It was time.

The serpent shuddered, “But why would you go there? You have such a perfect thing going on here with the angels. That place is despicable.”

“I chose to make them my children. I will go to them, no matter where they are, and bring them home.”

Satan narrowed his eyes slyly. “But what a price to pay! Are you sure it’s worth the cost?”

“Yes. They are worth it. They are mine – and I am theirs – for eternity.”

“But you do know they’re going to come with baggage, right? They will break your heart time and time again.”

Jesus smiled. “My heart – and body – will be broken for my children. Herein is love.”

Then He stepped down from His glory and embodied flesh, pain, and heartache – to adopt ME as His child.

For those of you who may wonder… Christ’s self-sacrificial love is what drives our adoption.

“The Scriptures tell us there are unseen beings in the air around us who would rather we not think about what it means to be who we are in Christ. These rulers of this age would rather we ignore both the eternal reality and the earthly icon of it. They would rather we find our identity, our inheritance, and our mission according to what we can see and verify as ours – according to what the Bible calls “the flesh” – rather than according to the veiled rhythms of the Spirit of life. That why adoption isn’t charity – it’s war.” (Adopted for Life by Russell Moore)