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Kids in foster care are often described as deserving a second chance; but I would argue when was their first?
Always, with one hundred percent accuracy, children are the victims of their parents or grandparents sins; maybe even further back.
Predictably, Deuteronomy 28 explains that the children of those who fail to obey God will be given to other people, or harsher still, to captivity. That was the fate of the widow’s sons in 2 Kings 4 until God filled her vessels overflowing.
Now captivity isn’t a word any of the wonderful people who comprise the Child Welfare Systems would use to describe itself: but the kids might. Shuttled from place to place, in many houses but fewer homes, and even fewer hearts, kids feel abandoned. Possessing no responsibility but serving all the punishment, there must be a better way.
The good news? Christ, as always. Strong Christians build strong marriages: which lead to strong families, not only stemming the tide of kids going in to the system, but through adoption can offer kids trying to get out – a first chance.
