A foundling is just that, a child who is found, having neither claim to nor the care of parents. A foundling’s only option for survival is to have someone step in and exercise the right of adoption over them.
Jerusalem was one such child, lost and without spiritual guidance. In 594 B.C. she had lost her relationship with the Father in heaven, and she was adrift, parentless, and without a guiding hand to nurture her or shape her paths.
Without God we are the same. It is only by his will that he rescues us from our foundling state. He comes to us in our sin, and he becomes our Father. He saturates us with the finery of his creation, and he makes us one with him.
Ezekiel 16:10-13 describes the glory God heaps upon us when he calls us his children. We are clothed in fine linen, silk, ornaments, bracelets, and chains. He places jewels on our foreheads, earrings in our ears, and a crown on our head. We eat the finest flour, honey, and oil. We prosper into greatness under his care.
God comes to us and renews our adoption. From the beginning of creation, we were formed to be like him. Adam was God’s glory, a creature to commune with the Creator of all creation. When Adam was lonely, God gifted to him a companion. Adam and Eve were God’s true-born children. No adoption papers were necessary.
Then that bond was broken. Humanity became a race of foundlings, beings cast on the streets of life without parentage or care, spiritually lost.
Then Jesus hung upon the cross, and the path of humanity was forever changed. Our adoption papers were brought forth, and we were invited to become one with the Father.
God wants to heap upon us the riches of his kingdom. Each gift he gives us renews our connection to him. We become bonded to the Father through the acts of his love.
Let’s list the ways he loves us, in our prayers of thanks, in our words to those we meet every day, and in our witness to the lost who struggle at our side.
Let’s renew our adoption papers by returning God’s love back unto him.
When love is a choice, it’s the deepest level of love we can show.
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