The boy convulsed with sobs, choking out his words.
“Don’t make me leave!”
It was one of the saddest stories I’ve ever read. The biological mother of this 4-year-old boy had won a bitter legal battle to reclaim her son from his adoptive family. When she arrived with her lawyer to take him from the only home he had ever known, the terrified, confused little boy pleaded with those he knew as Mommy and Daddy not to give him up to this complete stranger.
“Don’t make me go,” he begged. “Please. Please. Don’t send me away!”
With no understanding of courts, lawyers and legal codes, the boy was removed and left to wonder what he had done to be banished from those who had always said they loved him.
Some Christians live with the terrifying insecurity that in the shadows of God’s mind lurks a willingness to send them away if they fail or disappoint Him. Despite their love for God, they fear that God will withdraw His love from them and banish them from His heavenly home forever.
In the Bible, however, God repeatedly assures His people that once He sets His love on them, they are secure in that love forever.
REad the rest @
BGEA: Our Ministries: "Decision" Magazine
“Don’t make me leave!”
It was one of the saddest stories I’ve ever read. The biological mother of this 4-year-old boy had won a bitter legal battle to reclaim her son from his adoptive family. When she arrived with her lawyer to take him from the only home he had ever known, the terrified, confused little boy pleaded with those he knew as Mommy and Daddy not to give him up to this complete stranger.
“Don’t make me go,” he begged. “Please. Please. Don’t send me away!”
With no understanding of courts, lawyers and legal codes, the boy was removed and left to wonder what he had done to be banished from those who had always said they loved him.
Some Christians live with the terrifying insecurity that in the shadows of God’s mind lurks a willingness to send them away if they fail or disappoint Him. Despite their love for God, they fear that God will withdraw His love from them and banish them from His heavenly home forever.
In the Bible, however, God repeatedly assures His people that once He sets His love on them, they are secure in that love forever.
REad the rest @
BGEA: Our Ministries: "Decision" Magazine
