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Ephesians 1:3-6

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved."


You are wanted. If nothing else, be confident in that. You were wanted before the beginning of time and you have been wanted, very wanted, ever since. Jesus loved you, lost you, saw you, made the trip to get you, and when He gave His life up for you, the adoption papers were signed (the deal was sealed) and you became someone's someone.

Some of us are someone's someone, and some of us feel like we don't belong to anyone. Some of us were once wanted, and then we picked up the phone one day to find out we weren't quite wanted anymore like perhaps we once were. Just like adopted children on this earth have a little extra special-ness to them because someone paid a huge amount of time and love up front to find their baby to raise and adore, in even more ways than the greatest love a parent can have on this earth, so were you and I adopted by our heavenly Father.

What an overwhelming thought. That someone loved you with such ridiculous and extravagant love that the biggest price you can pay (one's life) was paid for you to belong to someone. And a celebrity (Jesus our Christ) at that. Hold your head high because you belong to royalty.
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