Moses’ Adoption - Jonathan’s Favorite Photo

Moses’ Adoption - Jonathan’s Favorite Photo 

So 4.5 years ago we traveled to a random office building in a city of 4+ million souls (Guiyang, Guizhou) to adopt Alia.  Yesterday we returned to this same building (one skyscraper in the midst of hundreds) to adopt Mia.  When you walk into the foyer of this office building a large painted mural covers the left wall.  It is so huge it is impossible to miss, but unless you’ve read the Bible you’d not know it’s significance.

This mural...is of Moses’ adoption.  Of all the paintings that could have been placed in that buildings foyer it was that picture.  Baby Moses being lifted out (‘Moses’ means “drawn out”) of his difficult and dangerous situation to be shown a forever love in a new family that belonged to the King.

Please keep in mind that China is a communist government.  Public mention and display of religion is unheard of.  But here.  The one office building in a province of 35 million souls where adoptions take place.  The adoption office is but a small, seemingly insignificant part of this 40+ story building, tucked away in a corner of the 24th floor.

This painting’s placement...  A coincidence? I think not.  God’s Sovereign hand? Absolutely. 

The people in front of this painting? A foster mother.  A forever family.  A loved orphan.  God’s amazing rescue plan to lift out a child from a difficult and dangerous situation into a forever family that belongs to the King.  Beautiful.  God is good!

May many more families have the joy and blessing of adoption in their life!  May many come to know Jesus’ love through the story of Moses’ adoption and the love seen in fostering and adopting today :)

“At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house, and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.” Acts 7:20-21

“When she could hide him no longer, she took for him a basket made of bulrushes and daubed it with bitumen and pitch. She put the child in it and placed it among the reeds by the river bank. 4 And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.5 Now the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river, while her young women walked beside the river. She saw the basket among the reeds and sent her servant woman, and she took it. 6 When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby was crying. She took pity on him and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children." 7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Shall I go and call you a nurse from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?" 8 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother. 9 And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." So the woman took the child and nursed him.10 When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, "Because," she said, "I drew him out of the water." Exodus 2:3-10