Got an hour to spare? If so, I suggest you sit back and enjoy a wonderful BYU devotional. Mark Peterson, a professor of Korean studies at BYU, spoke on the subject of adoption on March 8, 2005. He relates his own family’s adoption experiences, and likens them to the way we are all adopted into the house of Israel:

“But adoption is not limited to the special cases we call ‘adopted.’ It pertains to all of us. The Apostle Paul made several references to adoption. He spoke of adoption as the process by which we become members of the covenant, part of the family of Abraham. In five instances Paul used the term adoption to indicate the process by which Gentiles and Jews become... more