Adoption

[God] predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself. (Ephesians 1:5)

A Christian woman who had adopted a Jewish daughter...explained that...the Nazis came to her village to round up Jews. She had been shopping near the train station where German soldiers were loading Jews into rail cars....
A soilder [was] pushing a Jewess toward the station and [saw] a little girl toddling behind. He...demanded, "Is she your daughter?" The terrified mother looked straight into the Christian woman's eyes,...and said, "No, the child is hers." From that moment the Christian woman took the Jewish girl as her own daughter.

By grace God has claimed us for His own.... We were once alienated; now by faith adopted!