A month ago, our family was involved in a local theater's production of Annie.. I played drums, my daughter did costumes and my husband acted as "Daddy Warbucks"!
If you're not familiar with the story, it's pretty simple. Annie is an optimistic orphan who never gives up hope that her parents are going to come back for her someday. The orphanage director, Miss Hannigan, is a mean lady and hates Annie (along with the rest of the orphans) and so, Annie runs away to find her parents but gets caught and sent back to the orphanage...
Annie then gets the opportunity to spend 2 weeks over Christmas with Billionaire Daddy Warbucks. He falls in love with this adorable little red headed girl and wants to adopt her. Unfortunately for him, she rejects the offer because she believes, based on a locket and hand written note, that her parents are still alive and love her so she wants to find them. As much as He loves her, Daddy Warbucks decides to try and help Annie find the wayward parents by offering $50,000 and hiring the FBI. Miss Hannigan's brother finds out about this and inlists her help to deceive them into giving up Annie...but more importantly the money. In the end, we find out that Annie's true parents are deceased, Miss Hannigan and company get arrested and Daddy Warbucks gets to adopt Annie.
So that is Annie, in a very brief nutshell, but underneath I believe there is a deeper story. You see, Annie wanted to be loved, as do we all. When she was first given the opportunity to be adopted, loved, and to have a Daddy plus everything else she could possibly want, she rejected it. She continued to look for the love that she thought was elsewhere. It wasn't until she found out that her parents had passed away that she was willing to accept the love of Daddy Warbucks.
Isn't that how we are with God? He loves us greater than any human ever could. He gave more than $50,000 to show his love...He gave His Son, His life! He wants us to be filled with His Love. He wants us to look to Him to be our Daddy. Yet often times, we reject his love. We go searching elsewhere for the love that only God can give. Some people try to get fulfillment through drugs or alcohol. Others search for love through lust and sexual gratification. We often try to be satisfied through material goods. But alas, none of these things can compare to the love that God is offering us. He wants to adopt us as His children. To care for our every need. To love us as only a perfect parent can.
Will you reject his offer and continue to search elsewhere or will you accept and receive the love that only He can give?
Romans 8:31-32
Contemporary English Version
God’s Love
31 What can we say about all this? If God is on our side, can anyone be against us? 32 God did not keep back his own Son, but he gave him for us. If God did this, won’t he freely give us everything else?
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