Children of God

"He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God."
John 1 : 11-13

Just reading this verse this morning showed me how easy it is for us to receive a title of such high reputation, "children of God". One would think that it would be a hard process, to be identified as a child of God. If God were to go through a legal adoption process, God would have had to read a profile about us to see if He likes first, and then He would come and spend some time with us to see if our personalities appeal to Him, that is, if we even pass the first stage. God is holy and we're sinful so our profiles probably wouldn't pass the first test. However, if we miraculously passed that stage, He would then see our sinful state for Himself and would surely be disgusted. Well if we miraculously passed that test then He would have to pay a large sum of money for us and fill out a lot of paperwork. That's quite a lot of children to pay for and fill out paperwork for. But God doesn't go through that process in order to adopt us. God's adoption process contains only one step: us believing in Him. That's it! He doesn't need to look at our profiles in order to choose who He wants and who He doesn't want. He accepts all!
Imagine going to an adoption center and whichever child wanted to be with you, you adopted. You will need to buy a load more of houses to house all of those kids because orphaned kids want to be loved.