Adoption & Foster Care
Adoption and foster care carry both the joy of gaining a family and the grief and complexity that comes before it - whether for the child, the birth family, or the adoptive or foster parents. Scripture uses adoption itself as a central image of the gospel, and Moses and Esther are only two of Scripture's own examples of children raised by families not their own.
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Adoption of Children by Jesus Christ
Ephesians 1:5
Paul describes believers' relationship to God using the language of adoption - the gospel's central relational image is itself an adoption story.
5aving predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,
A Father of the Fatherless
Psalms 68:5-6
God is described as father to the fatherless and the one who sets the solitary into families, directly naming His concern for children without parents.
5 father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.
Visit the Fatherless
James 1:27
James defines pure religion partly as caring for orphans in their affliction - a direct call toward fostering and adoption.
27ure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Moses Becomes Pharaoh's Grandson
Exodus 2:9-10
Moses himself was raised in Pharaoh's household after being drawn from the river - Scripture's own account of a child adopted across barriers of origin.
9nd Pharaohโs daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.