Adopted: Part I - Getting To Know You
"For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, 'Abba! Father!' it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God." —Romans 8:14-16 We have heard that God desires relationship with us. I have found that it can be a little overwhelming to ponder what it means to be "in relationship" with the God of the universe. After all, God has many different titles and roles in which he could be operating. He is the Lord of Hosts (a military term), he is the Creator of the Heavens and the Earth, he is the Lord of Lords, he is Abba Father, he is the Lord our provider, the question is, who is God when God wants to be close to me? I often feel like the four children in C.S. Lewis’ classic tale The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, as they were told of the Great King of that realm, Aslan the lion. One of th