Impending Victory!

Do not fear, for I am with you

Have you ever felt that fear that creeps up on you as you walk forward in faith? That slows your pace as you glance hesitantly side to side? That can paralyze you if you let it? I fear (no pun intended) that we have recently been slowed by it. We have come to the difficult part of the paperwork where we face our insecurities. Our fear says, “Who would give a child to you?” Our dread says, “You really can’t afford to do this.” Honestly, a thousand evil darts of fear and panic have been fired at us during this adoption… and we haven’t even gotten to the hard part yet!

We are keeping one thing in mind… or rather One Someone! Our God is with us! Not only is He with us as our Father and Redeemer in an every day, every way sense, but He is with us in this adoption! He has called us to this fight, this battle, this VICTORY!

So we have been girding up our metaphorical loins and pressing onward!

Isaiah 43:5 promises that our fear is inconsequential in that God Himself is with us… that we will be led to triumph by the Lord of Hosts. We can hide behind His shield, be enlivened by His strength, encouraged by His mighty will! It makes me want to burst out in song – “O victory, in Jesus…”

So we declare, “We are going to be granted the glorious privilege of parenting a special-needs orphan!” and “God has set apart a child for us, one who is fit for our family specifically, who will be a loving son or daughter, the delight of our hearts!”

The harder declaration for us to make is “We can afford this adoption, because our ‘we’ includes God! He will provide for this miracle to happen!” We have seen Him provide miraculously so far – we have all the funds for our home study and for our CIS application! This is monumental! And we praise God and thank all of you who have helped to get us this far. But it is only a token of what God is about to do, for very soon we will have to discover $27,000 more of God’s provision to complete this adoption.

I will bring your offspring from the east

Another promise from Isaiah 43:5! He says not to fear – that He is bringing our offspring from the east! How delightful that He has this in His Word, just for us! Well, for everyone really, but the promise is particularly specific to us. The Lord is bringing our offspring from the east… from Bulgaria. We can’t wait to visit this beautiful land and meet the child that he is bringing forth from there for us.

 

Our sweet child, whom we love so much already. I have been reading some other blogs written by other adoptive parents of special-needs children from Bulgaria. What precious, wonderful creatures! Each one a miracle, an over comer, a victory! Each journey has had its battles, but they end in triumph – with most of the parents giving glory to God.

I’ve noticed a common occurrence in each of these blogs. After visiting their children in the orphanage in Bulgaria for the first time, they come home and beg and plead with the readers of their blog to join them in the salvation and redemption of the lost little ones they have seen over there. So many infinitely valuable children in need of someone to come and scoop them out of their misery into a loving family. These parents' hearts are broken, for they are doing all they can by adopting one, two, even three children, but are leaving thousands behind in the orphanages. So they come home and do their best to convince others to join in. “Something must be done!” they say…”whether humanitarian aid for the orphanages, adoptions, helping others adopt, something, anything!” These children need to be saved now!

It makes me want to cast all fear aside and march forward to stand and fight at the front of this battle! So beware rejection, abandonment, hunger, neglect, and woe! We will not let our child endure much longer in your grasp. We are coming for our child and the gates of hell WILL NOT prevail!