How Adoption Makes Your Life Better with Mac Powell

I want to show you two photos that are very special to me. This is my son, Emanuel. Emanuel is now 13 years old. And this is my daughter, Birdie Claire.
When Emanuel was a month old, we adopted him and were able to bring him into our home. Then almost a year later, we got a call in the middle of the night that a little girl was about to be born and they did not have a place to put her, a family to bring her to.
My wife and I thought, we really need to pray about this. We have four kids already. We just adopted a little boy less than a year ago and he's still a baby. I don't know how we can bring another child in our home.
We told to the adoption agency we'd pray about it and that we'll go see her, but that we probably weren't going to be able to do this.
The next morning, my wife and I are getting ready in the bathroom to go see this little girl. We're getting dressed and getting ready. And my son, Emmanuel, crawls into the bathroom and looks up at me with these beautiful brown eyes and smiles. And I just felt this feeling of going, "He's brought us so much joy, how can we not do this again?"
We went to the hospital to see this little girl (that I was pretty sure we weren't going to adopt). I saw her and right away I said, "that's my daughter, we're taking her home." We took her home the next day and our lives have been blessed ever since.
Adoption is such a beautiful thing and our family has been changed for the better because of it.
In the Old Testament days, there was actually a law that if you were a parent and your children weren't living to the standards that you wanted them to, you could actually divorce your children. You could just write out a certificate saying, I'm not responsible for these children anymore. But if you adopted a child, you couldn't go by that law; there was nothing you could do to cast that child out of your family once you adopted them. And so when Paul writes in Ephesians, "you have been adopted into God's family," that's what he meant. Paul was saying, there is nothing you can do to be outside of God's family now. There's nothing that you can do for Him to push you away.
I just thought about that deepness of God's love for us and how Emmanuel, my adopted son, that there was this deep thing that's different than you have with your biological children.
If anyone out there is considering adoption, it's a big move. It's a big life changing thing. It's not something to rush into. It's something definitely to pray about. Talk to other people who have adopted, because it's just like having a child. Even a biological child is not just some easy thing. There's a lot of struggles, there's a lot of hard times, but there's a lot of beauty and a lot of love in there as well.
That's my encouragement to you: Keep praying, go have conversations with people who have adopted, and think about how God can change your life through adoption.
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That's beautiful Mac! Both your adoption experience and what you brought out about the Old Testament tradition of not being able to "divorce" your adopted child and those implications!! Thank you for taking the time to make this video! 😃