“A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, is God in His holy habitation. God makes a home for the lonely. . .” ~Psalm 68:5,6a (NASB)
God’s heart for orphans being loved is what inspired the making of All I Want for Christmas, and even if just one child ends up in a loving home because of this film, it will have been worth it. That same heart is what motivates us to share this film with as many as possible.
Beyond that, there is an even deeper meaning behind this film. It’s God’s heart for you. As an extension of His own hand, and in His name, adoption mirrors the heart of God toward each of us. While we were helpless to save ourselves, Jesus Christ came into our world to rescue us from the life we were doomed to because of our sin. ”But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” ~John 1:12,13 (NASB)
God’s offer of love and forgiveness is offered without cost to you, and there is no earning it. It did, however, cost Him the life of His Son, Jesus, as He was crucified to take the punishment we all deserve for our sins. But, as Peter explained on the historic day of Pentecost, “Jesus, the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with miracles and wonders and signs which God performed through Him in your midst, just as you yourselves know–this Man, delivered up by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of evil men and put Him to death. And God raised Him up again, putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power. . .This Jesus God raised up again to which we are all witnesses.” ~Acts 2:22, 23, 24, 32 (NASB)
And Later that day, “…Now when they heard this, they were pierced to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, ‘Brethren, what shall we do?’ And Peter said to them, ‘Repent, and let each of you be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far off, as many as the Lord our God shall call to Himself.’” ~Acts 2:37-39 (NASB)
This promised gift of the Holy Spirit is no small thing. When Jesus walked here on earth, He told His disciples that He would not be staying forever with them in a body, but that after He went back to heaven, “I will ask the Father and he will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you. . .I will not leave you as orphans. . .If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My father will love him, and We will come to Him and make our abode with him. . .These things I have spoken to you, while abiding with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.” ~John 14:16-18, 23, 25, 26 (NASB)
Knowing you are loved and belonging forever in a family on earth is an indescribable treasure, but even greater still is the treasure of being forever loved, forgiven, and adopted into the family of the Heavenly Father, who also has the perfect power to carry out all of His perfect plans for your life. Just like Vera had to accept the offer of being adopted, so do we. God invites us to repent (turn from our ways of disobeying Him), and to believe that His Son, Jesus, took all the punishment for our sins when He died and that He rose again. If you will believe, He will adopt you, not on the basis of who you are or what you have done, but on the basis of who He is and what He has done.
It’s explained like this in Paul’s letter to Titus. ”For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that being justified by His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.” ~Titus 3:3-7 (NASB)
God’s incomparable love is why He wants to adopt you, and live in you by His Spirit. ”For 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 [Daddy]! Father!‘” ~Romans 8:15 (NASB)
Is anything holding you back from accepting His offer?
