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“Haven't Seen It Yet”
Categories: Minister's CornerI’m in my car listening to the radio and Danny Gokey’s song HAVEN’T SEEN IT YET comes on. As I listened to this song tears began to stream down my face. I immediately started thinking about the sweet girl that we are adopting from Colombia, our beautiful Cielo. Thinking about the sunrise on the other side of the darkest night that she is about to see makes me smile. There is this one line in the song that almost goes unnoticed and I couldn’t get it out of my head. Later that day, I looked the song up on the internet and the lyrics as well. Sure enough, that line was there just the way I remembered. “HE HAD THE SOLUTION BEFORE YOU HAD THE PROBLEM.” I will come back to that line in just a moment. But first, think about the massive problem going on in our world and country with children who don’t have a family. Children that want hope, love and to belong.
“According to UNICEF (the United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund), there are roughly 153 million orphans worldwide. Every day, an estimated 5,700 more children become orphans. Children are often relinquished due to war, natural disaster, poverty, disease, stigma, and medical needs.” “In the United States, there are approximately 437,000 children in the foster care system on any given day. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in 2016 (the last year of reported data) there were over 117,000 children waiting for adoption, but only 57,000 placements occurred.” Let me say that I am grateful for organizations, orphanages, group homes, and foster families who are standing in the gap to help support the helpless. It’s that line, “He had the solution before you had the problem” that I keep thinking about especially with this discussion on Adoption.
Before there was ever a PROBLEM GOD had a SOLUTION. That solution is you and me! We must have open hearts to see the need, open homes to welcome children into our family, and open wallets to support those who are able to adopt. God speaks clearly to His followers in Isaiah 1:17 and James 1:27 that we are called to be the solution for this problem. Christie and I are overwhelmed with gratitude for the generosity, encouragement and support shown to us during our adoption journey. It’s an amazing feeling to know, as we step out in faith, our church family and friends are fortifying our steps and holding up our arms. You are a blessing! You are the sunrise on the other side of the darkest night for Cielo and so many others. Let us continue to glorify God in this community and abroad as the Fulshear church of Christ in all that we say and do. THANKS FOR BEING OUR VILLAGE.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world. — James 1:22,27
