Good morning. My article for the July newsletter is the story of a quiet hero named Nicholas Winton. This is a man who took it upon himself to save several hundred Jewish children from certain death at the hands of the Nazis in WWII. His ordeal in saving these children was many faceted, and every part of it was its own struggle. It required a significant amount of money to transport each child to a place of safety rather than give them up to certain annihilation at a death camp. But that wasn’t the most challenging part of his “project.”
The most challenging part of saving these children was the essential rule that every child needed to have a family waiting to take them in once they made their way to safety. It was a time of need, of rationing, of uncertainty regarding who would have enough to take care of the needs of their own families in England without taking in another mouth to feed, but Mr. Winton found over a thousand such families. There were people willing to sacrifice, to have less in order to share, willing to pay the price to take in a child who in all probability didn’t speak English.
I have always admired those who open their hearts and their homes and adopt children. It is, I believe, one of the most loving and selfless acts that a person or a couple could ever consider. And oh, by the way, when a couple decides to adopt, they are not only opening their hearts they are opening their wallets as well. Just as was the case for Nicholas Winton, there is always a price.
Please consider then the price paid for you: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predetermined our adoption to himself as His children through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved. Ephesians 1:3-6
Our adoption into the immediate family of God comes with the price of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary. It was because of His love for us that He determined that we would be His, no matter how horrible the cost would be.
Praise be to God our Father for His incredible love for us. He made us His own, reclaimed us from the terror that was in store for us, and calls us by His holy name. Praise God for such awesome love!
Vern