Tex-Mex Meets Borscht: It Is Finished

This morning was the first morning that Sasha awakened as Sasha Reese Jensen. My goodness. That blows my mind. She is my daughter. I extended my hand and said, "Would you like to take my name and become my own flesh and blood?" She responded that indeed she would like that, and now it is finished. It is settled. Sure, there are some formalities and processing that must take place, but it is settled. The decision cannot and will not be reversed.

Before the judge stated the decree and the decision she asked us, "Are you sure that you do not want to change your mind?" We responded that no, we do not wish to change our minds. Then she made the decree that on this 28th day of April 2011 this child will be known as Sasha Reese Jensen, daughter to Daniel Gordon Jensen and Kerri Dawn Jensen. As the judge walked out of the court room she paused and looked at me and said, "It is finished." It is finished. Those words took my breath away even before Natasha translated them into English for me.

My heavenly Father was both adoptive Father and Judge on the day that I become his daughter. I now understand, perhaps for the first time in my life, that just like me it blows his mind that I am forever his daughter. It blows his mind that I have his name. It blows his mind about every child in his Kingdom family. He extends his hand over and over and asks child after child if they would like to take his name and become his own flesh and blood. He is and forever will be infinitely more excited about his adoption of us than I am about Sasha. Sure, there are formalities, some processing and transformation must take place, but the matter is settled. It is finished. Transformation is necessary. Otherwise, I have only changed my name. Without the transformation I will never look like or act like my Father or my big brother in the Kingdom, Jesus.

1John 3:1-2 says "See how very much our Father loves us, for he calls us his children, and that is what we are! But the people who belong to this world don't recognize that we are God's children because they don't know him. Dear friends, we are already Gods children, but he has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we do know that we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is."

I don't know what Sasha or our family will look like in 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, but I do know that she will be like us in many, many ways. And ultimately I know that she will look like and act like her big brother in the Kingdom, Jesus.