Waiting to be adopted

Rom 8:22  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Rom 8:23  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

Waiting for the adoption.

Some people know as children what it means to wait to be adopted.  It is common knowledge that people prefer newborns and very young children to adopt. It's less common to adopt older children. In fact, the older children get the least likely they are to be adopted.  Older children realize this and yet they still hope.  Most of those children grow up in foster homes, or orphanages and when they are of age they are set out into the world to continue their lives parentless.

Those children who wait to be adopted have a hope, an expectation, a desire to have parents.

We who wait for the adoption by our Father God can be assured this adoption WILL take place.

The waiting isn't easy, no one said it would be easy. We are told it would be hard. We are told this--

Joh 15:1  I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Joh 15:2  Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Every branch that beareth fruit- he purgeth.

Rev_3:19  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Rebuked, chastened.

Heb 12:5  And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Heb 12:6  For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Heb 12:7  If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Heb 12:8  But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

So why do we think the waiting for our adoption- the redemption of our bodies that will occur when our Savior returns- should be easy for us?