Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Realization

I found this youtube video an adoption and orphan civil forum at Saddleback Church. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p78Y3ZMLv9Q

Russell Moore was on the panel. He wrote the brilliant Adopted For Life, which every Christian needs to read. I’m paraphrasing him but in the forum, he said when he and his wife were carrying the one-year-old sons from their Russian orphanages, their sons were crying, their hands out reaching for the orphanage. He said he thought why are you crying? Why are you reaching for that pit? Do you know what you have to look forward to? Grandparents, Lagos, Happy Meals. Later that day, he said the Holy Spirit spoke to him and said your sons are you. You have a mansion prepared for you, you know what awaits you in heaven, yet you still cling to your past.

Tears slipped down my face at the truth of his words, at his realization. I still cling to things of the world. Won’t let go of the things that God wants me to let go of for my good. Yet I know that if I give it up that only the best things await me.

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