How to Blow
Away One of the World's Darkest Clouds:
I was reading some adoption blogs lately
and came across an interesting fact in a post that is circulating. I looked it
up, did the math myself (risky, I know....) and found it to be true. 
Here it is:
-There are 143 million orphans in the world, according to UNICEF.
-There are 2 billion people who consider themselves Christian in
the world, according to government censuses.
-All of these Christians are adopted,
according to the Bible:
14For
all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. 15For
you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have
received a spirit of adoption as sons
by which we cry out, "Abba! Father!" 16The
Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, 17and
if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we
suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him. Romans 8:14-17
However, less than half of the 143 million orphans
are adoptable because of insufficient
paperwork (birth and death records, for
example), religious laws forbidding adoption to Christian families (Muslim
orphans), poor relations between the US and the orphan's government (Burma), or
lack of a transparent adoption system in place to guarantee ethical adoption
(Cambodia).
Therefore,
if only 7% of the 2 billion people who
claim to believe in their adoption into God’s family through Christ -7%
of those people- chose to adopt ONE child,
all
143 million
of the world's orphans would have a permanent safe
home and a family to call their own! And since this is unrealistic because of
the above listed reasons, if only
THREE-yes- 3% of the world's Christians adopted ONE child-
ALL adoptable orphans
would have a permanent safe home and a forever family.
WHAT?! That's all it would take?!
Disclaimer:
I firmly believe that not everyone is called to adopt, Christian or not. But I
also firmly believe that, at the very least,
3% of 2 billion
Christians have been given this calling, especially since scripture defines the
mark of pure Christianity as caring for orphans (see below)! It's simply a
matter of obeying the call and returning the enormous gift of adoption that God
has given us to a child who needs a home.
Turns out some of the world's problems
are easily
fixed. Peace in the middle east? I have no idea. But the orphan crisis???
This one should be easy.
27Religion
that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans
and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the
world. James 1:27.
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