Moses was adopted.  Pharoah's daughter found him in the bulrushes, and "he became her son," the Bible says. 

Did you know Queen Esther was also adopted?  When she was a little girl her name was Hadassah, and she was adopted by her cousin, Mordecai, when her father and mother died.  Eventually Esther married the great Persian king Xerxes and risked her life to save her people. 

Both Moses and Esther were placed by God in circumstances to do what they could never have done had they not been adopted.  To his adopted daughter, Mordecai said, "Who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" 

In a very great sense, God Himself is an adoptive parent. 

Why would God adopt us and introduce us by justification into new life and union with Him?   The Bible says the LORD chose Israel out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his treasured possession, not because they were more numerous, powerful, or admirable.  They weren't. 

"But it was because the LORD loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers..."  (Deut. 7:8)

God adopted Israel because of His own inexplicable love, not because they were anything special at all.  So too with you and me.  God, in baptism, has adopted us through Christ - through Him who paid the necessary price to make our adoption into God's family possible.  He did this not because you or I are special, wise, attractive, or worthy.  We are none of these things.  But He is!

You and I are wicked and selfish.  He is righteous and self-sacrificing.  We, by nature, are horrible.  He, both in His nature and His work, is lovely.  He is gracious, long-suffering, and kind.  He is blameless, but still He adopted you and exchanged your place for His. 

You Christians are "children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God."  (John 1:13)

Like Moses and Esther you are placed by God into circumstances to have what you could never have received or known if you were not adopted, and by His new life do what you could otherwise never do.  To share in the particular love of God, have your portion in his divine nature, receive God's protection, support, and supply, His fatherly discipline, and a future glorious inheritance... all are yours. 

God adopted you by allowing the aborting of His Son.  Remember that!  Jesus, the holy one, suffered at the world's hands the hateful, wicked act of abortion, of murder by cross, while you and I are chosen to receive the loving and wonderful act of adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.

Today, make the sign of the cross, and say, "I am God's baptized child.  I have been adopted by Him.  I have come by His grace alone to royal position through no act of my own.  Just as an adopted baby who has no credentials, no accomplishments, no estate or assets is taken in and embraced by the act of another's love, I have what I could never have otherwise had. 

May I now do, as God's child, that which I could otherwise never have done.