Lots of Scary Stories

Kevin here. I never heard so many scary stories until we attempted international adoption. Stories about orphanage conditions, about kids damaged by drugs, alcohol, deprivation or abuse. Stories about their inability to bond with their adopted families. Stories about the estimated time frame versus the actual much longer time frame. It reads like a Stephen King novel and they never have a happy ending.

Call us a little crazy but we aren't doing this for a guaranteed happy ending. It all has to do with your perspective.

From a worldly perspective, compared to these kids, I am a king. We own a home, a car, a TV and our kitchen is stocked with food. They showed up at our house with only the clothes on their backs. No suitcase, no toys, not even a toothbrush. How could we with our comparative wealth turn our backs on these poor children?

From an eternal perspective, God has said in His Word that children are a blessing. Even if everything goes wrong in our lives here on Earth, my desire on my judgement day is that God will look at me and say, "well done, good and faithful servant". We hope that our actions will make a difference in the lives of our children but we leave the outcome in God's hands.

Matthew 25:34-36,40 "Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed of My Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink; I was a stranger and you invited Me in; naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me'. The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.'"