There is no substitute for a family
A nine-year-old Oklahoma boy named Jordan, who is living in a group home, made a heartbreaking plea for a family to adopt him during a local news interview last week and received thousands of responses within 12 hours as a result.
In a story by KFOR, the young boy, who said he wants to be a police officer when he grows up, begged for a permanent home to call his own.
“The reason it’s important is because -- so I could have some people to talk to anytime I need to,” Jordan had said. “I hope one of y’all pick me.”
Within hours of his statement, families from New Jersey, Florida, Illinois and Kentucky reportedly reached out to the news station, seeking to help provide him with a permanent home, according to The Daily Mail.
Jordan has been in the care of the Oklahoma Department of Human Services for six years. He'd previously been there alongside his younger brother Braison, but he was later adopted, leaving Jordan on his own.
His permanency planner told KFOR that over 5,000 submissions to adopt Jordan have been submitted thus far.
If he were granted three wishes Jordan said he would ask, “To have a family, and family, family. Those are the only wishes I have.
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Rayburn's Comment:
The first thing God did after he had prepared the whole earth for human habitation was to create Adam and Eve, the first couple, husband and wife who were commissioned to create the first home and family. That is as basic and essential to human existence and development as when God said "Let there be light", molded the first human, in God's own "image and likeness" and breathed life into Adam the first human husband and father. The home, composed of a father and mother, to live and raise children in, was created first, long before the church. There was first the family and then the race and then the nations and then the church. In all of that, the husband and wife were human types of Jesus and His bride, the church. The human family is a type of the heavenly family, and every little boy and girl desperately needs a human family to guide them to ... later find their heavenly family.
Numbers 26 mentions the family 87 times in 58 verses as the structural framework of the nation, even as the human family is the primary framework of every nation. As goes the family, so goes the nation, is an old adage which has proven true by history.
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Rayburn's Comment:
The first thing God did after he had prepared the whole earth for human habitation was to create Adam and Eve, the first couple, husband and wife who were commissioned to create the first home and family. That is as basic and essential to human existence and development as when God said "Let there be light", molded the first human, in God's own "image and likeness" and breathed life into Adam the first human husband and father. The home, composed of a father and mother, to live and raise children in, was created first, long before the church. There was first the family and then the race and then the nations and then the church. In all of that, the husband and wife were human types of Jesus and His bride, the church. The human family is a type of the heavenly family, and every little boy and girl desperately needs a human family to guide them to ... later find their heavenly family.
Numbers 26 mentions the family 87 times in 58 verses as the structural framework of the nation, even as the human family is the primary framework of every nation. As goes the family, so goes the nation, is an old adage which has proven true by history.
One of life's greatest blessings is a Christ loving, God fearing home and family.
"Blessed is every one that feareth the Lord; that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man be blessed that feareth the Lord." Psm. 128
And the blessings of family do not end with this life, but continue on throughout eternity for all the children of God.
For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man." Eph. 3:14-16
If God leads .... give a home and a family to a homeless boy or girl.
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