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Are You Lost? Are You Suffering? Come out of the Wilderness!

Richard Forbes
Christian, Daily Devotional, Child of God

Have you been prepared to become a son or daughter of God? By that I mean, has God brought you to the place where you can see that the world (although filled with great beauty) doesn’t hold a candle to what awaits you with Him in Heaven? Are you ready to become His child? God gave Israel into the hands of Egypt for 430 years so that they might become receptive to Him. Then following His rescue, He led them for another 40 years through the desert before they were truly prepared and redeemed. Have you been redeemed? Are you ready to come out of the wilderness you find yourself in?

Our Adoption as the Children of God

Richard Forbes
Christian , Daily Devotional , Adoption

I once heard a man who had just lost both of his parents make this statement in the midst of his grief, “now I am an orphan”, and I thought to myself “for those who believe in God that will never be true.” Jesus Christ came to redeem us from sin, and to abide in us, but He came to do much more than simply introduce us to His Father, He came so that we would be adopted by Him… in Jesus we have become more than orphans that our Lord has charitably taken in… we have become His true sons and daughters; the sons and daughters of a loving God, and made His in every way.