You have opened your home and heart to a child who needs a family, choosing to love through uncertainty, hard behavior, and sometimes heartbreak. It is a beautiful, costly calling. These verses are for foster and adoptive parents, to strengthen you and remind you that you reflect the heart of God.
What God says over foster and adoptive parents
“A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation. God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.”
God sets the solitary in families; He is a father to the fatherless.
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”
Do not grow weary; the harvest of love will come in due season.
“He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.”
Children are a heritage of the Lord, however they come to you.
“And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”
His grace is sufficient for the days that are too hard.
Where this all leads
Adoption is not a backup plan in the Bible; it is the very picture of the gospel. God adopted you as His own child at the cost of His Son, and every time you love a child who is not yours by birth, you are living out His heart. When it is hard, and it will be, lean on His sufficient grace, for you are doing the very work of God.
Lord, thank You for the child You have placed in our home. Give us patience for the hard days, wisdom for the wounds, and love that does not give up. Heal what is broken in this little one, and let our family reflect the way You adopted us. Sustain us by Your grace. In Jesus name, amen.
You were never meant to walk this alone
The family here will pray with you, and you can hear how Christ has met others in the same place.
What is a good Bible verse for foster and adoptive parents?
Psalm 68:5-6 (God sets the solitary in families), James 1:27 (caring for the fatherless), and Ephesians 1:5 (God's own adoption of us) are cherished by foster and adoptive parents.
What does the Bible say about adoption?
It presents adoption as central to the gospel: God adopts believers as His children (Ephesians 1:5, Romans 8:15), He is a father to the fatherless (Psalm 68:5), and caring for orphans is called pure religion (James 1:27).