We are confronted with choices all around us. We are bombarded by them in TV advertisements as well as when we go to the grocery store. We have curated apps on our phones to help us choose a particular product and order it. But what if we didn’t have so many choices?

Amazingly, we have been chosen by God to be His children before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1:4). Since I am chosen, I did not have input to my selection. When God selected me, it was not on the basis of my own merits or qualifications. It was based on His grace, and His choice of me was costly, based on the sacrificial death of His Son Jesus.

When we consider our adopted child(ren) as chosen, we remember the process that we went through in order to be able to adopt them. The string of events that preceded our official recognition as their parents recognized that we were making life-changing choices for both ourselves and for our children. Not only was the date of their adoption important, but all the transformations which occurred afterwards.

Our adoption of them to become part of our family reveals that our adoption as God’s children is a new set of relationships, both with our Heavenly Father and with the other children whom He has picked and adopted. The goal of our adoption by God was that we would be transformed. God’s love is great, otherwise He would not put up with us and our sinfulness. As we grow in our love of Him, we want to become more like Him. God also uses siblings in our new family to help us through this process.

Just as no one envisions an adoption as being disrupted, God does not intend for His adoption of us to be disrupted. If our selections sometimes waiver, God’s choices never waiver. God’s adoption of us has a view to eternity with Him. While we are not presently able to fathom all that this means, we will be endlessly in His presence and enjoying and worshipping Him.

How do you think about your adoption by your Heavenly Father? What would make you more confident in this? Please feel free to comment on this blog in the box below.