n 24 hours I will be meeting my son for the first time. As I wait, I reflect back on this journey. Many may look at it as an adoption journey but it actually began a few years before when Chad and I made a realization that we no longer wanted to play church but wanted to actively seek God and grow in our relationship with Him. So it really was never an adoption journey at all, it was of a pursuit, a pursuit of God. 


It was fitting that on the long flight over that I chose the book "The Pursuit of God" by AZ Tozer. I found so much truth in the words he wrote just from the changes we have experienced during our own pursuit of God. I will share a piece of our pursuit and then I want to share just a small paragraph from the book.... 


The more we continue to grow in the Lord the more of a stranger we fill in this world. Things that we use to consider acceptable no longer seem so appropriate. Once we realize the power of Christ in us, everything changes. When Christ enters your life- your life changes! When your heart has been transformed through Christ your priorities change, your habits change, your desires change, and with that change comes losses. When you truly live for Christ and speak the truth of God's word you get labeled, you get hated, you get mocked. You lose friends and sometimes you lose family. Loss is never easy but when you lose something for Christ the gain is so much greater. 


Tozer wrote: 


It is important that we get still to wait on God. And it is best that we get alone, preferably with our Bible outspread before us. Then if we will we may draw near to God and begin to hear Him speak to us in our hearts. I think for the average person the progression will be something like this: First a sound as of a Presence walking in the garden. Then a voice, more intelligible, but still far from clear. Then the happy moment when the Spirit begins to illuminate the Scriptures, and that which had been only a sound, or at best a voice, now becomes an intelligible word, warm and intimate and clear as the word of a dear friend. Then will come life and light, and best of all, ability to see and rest in the embrace Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord of All. -"The Pursuit of God" by AZ Tozer


Friends, there is nothing greater. 


I am so thankful to be adopted into the family of Christ! 


It is my prayer today that as we open our hearts and home to this precious child of God that others will see Christ in our heart and in our lives and come to know Him.