One does not have to look very closely to notice that my daughter,
Kaara, does not (thankfully) look like me. For this reason total strangers make comments. By in large I don’t mind, it sort of comes with the territory of being an adoptive parent. Typically people are just curious so even the more potentially offensive questions (i.e. was she expensive?) don’t bother me. Some of the questions/ comments include:
1. Is your wife Asian?
2. Does your wife speak English? (by the same person that ask #1 after I told them no)
3. Is she (Kaara) adopted? (I love this one, especially when we are out as a family)
4. Is she one of those “Lost Daughters” (
link)?
5. It’s so good that now she will be able to hear about Jesus.
I have been thinking allot about the last one lately. I used to always respond by saying, “Well, that diminishes God’s power; she could have heard the Gospel in China”. It is undeniable that the Chinese Government actively tries to suppress the Gospel in China but God is more powerful than the PRC. He may very well have been able to reach Kaara if she had not been adopted.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:15-16 (NIV)
Here is where I have been convicted: What if it’s not the people who say, “It’s so good that now she will be able to hear about Jesus” that are diminishing God’s Power? What if it’s me? What if God’s plan of salvation goes beyond His Son coming, dieing on the cross for the sins of mankind, being buried, defeating death by rising on the third day and ascending to Heaven where He resides today preparing a place for us. While that is universally true, what if God’s plan for salvation for each of us goes beyond that to the personal level? One person may come forward during an alter call given at the end of a church service. I came to Christ as a child. What if God ordained that an unformed Chinese baby would be adopted by a Christian American family and would have the opportunity to hear the Gospel through them?
It is incredible to me that God would love us so much that he would individually tailor our Gospel experience. He is more than a form letter or infomercial god; He speaks to us personally.
“The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,Because He has anointed Me To preach the gospel to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives And recovery of sight to the blind,To set at liberty those who are oppressed; To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD.” 
