During the ugly years of Word War II, a Christian woman in Poland was standing by the street when a German soldier was pushing a Jewish mother toward the train station. Everyone knew these helpless victims were being transported to extermination camps. At the heels of the Jewish woman was a small girl in tears.

As they passed the Christian woman, the soldier demanded, “Is this your daughter?” The terrified mother looked straight into the Christian woman’s eyes and said, “No, the child is hers.” From that moment on the Christian woman took that Jewish girl and raised her as her own daughter.

That Christian woman later immigrated to the United States and recounted her story to Penelope Duckworth, a chaplain at Stanford University.

Thank God that we’ve been rescued and adopted into the family of God. “So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, God has made you also an heir” (Galatians 4:7).

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