IHOP and MOSES

The best Christmas present for me is having all my chicks back in the nest. Today the five of us went to eat breakfast at IHOP. We were sitting next to a very nice older couple, and they enjoyed meeting Collins and hearing about our recent adoption. About halfway through our meal, with tears in his eyes this gentleman looked at me said, “This child is like Moses.” He went on to say that Moses was born into a hostile environment (death of baby boys because of the large population of the Israelites and the threat that was to Pharaoh). God preserved his life by putting him into the palace as a result of Pharaoh’s daughter’s “adoption” of Moses. Pharaoh wasn’t going to say no to his little girl….So the deliverer of Israel was supernaturally rescued and preserved because there was a great work for him to do. Wow…Collins was born into a wonderful country but because of their enormous population, most couples can only have one child. Families prefer boys to carry on the family name, and so the orphanages in China are full of little girls. Hostile environment. God has sovereignly chosen this little girl to be preserved and taken out of that. Our little house is not a palace, but compared to what she came from it’s the Biltmore Estate. She has been rescued out of a life without a mom or dad, brothers and grandmothers. Most importantly she has been taken from spiritual darkness to a place where she can know the one true God in a personal way. Preserved. I believe she will be used in a mighty way. I believe there is a great purpose for her life. This encounter today reminded me again that her story is and will be pretty miraculous. He is up to something…