Sonship

You have received a Spirit of sonship...~ Romans 8:15

Yesterday, an article was published in the paper about four area families who all adopted sons and daughters from Uganda. The article talks about the story of how each of the children got here, but the picture tells the most. The pictures tell the story of families, where the parents do not esteem their birth children higher than their adopted sons or daughters. These families all had to sacrifice something and pay a price in order to bring their adopted children home. The Bible considers us evil with respect to God, and so if we--who are evil--will sacrifice and pay a price and take children who are not of our flesh in as our own sons and daughters, "how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!" (Matthew 7:11). Romans 8 talks about sonship and adoption. God, through His son Jesus, bought each of us at a very high and costly price to be able to call us sons. How much more so should we, as sons and daughters of the living God, live as the Spirit--who lives within us--calls us? Romans 8:14 says, "those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God." As sons and daughters, allow yourself to be led as the Holy Spirit leads.

The Spirit himself testifies that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs--heirs with God and co-heirs with Christ... ~ Romans 8:17