Faith In God

An abortion has taken place in Brazil. Abortions are illegal in Brazil but the government can override the law in what they consider special circumstances.



The pregnant female was only 9 years old. She was pregnant with twins. She was supposedly raped by her stepfather.



That would constitute a special circumstance and the officials charged with making this decision said that they did so because the pregnancy endangered the life of the girl.



The Catholic Church in Brazil protested, but to no avail.



How do you feel about this circumstance?



It is indeed a horrible thing that an adult would rape a 9 year old. And one has to wonder how it was that her body could conceive at such a young age.



But what about the two babies that were killed and discarded?



Who were they? What might they have meant to the world?



It is likely in our present society that pre-natal testing would have resulted in the abortion of Beethoven. His testing would have indicated a less than perfect fetus.



In our present society it is likely that the great Methodist preacher John Wesley would have been aborted. His parents were poor and he was child number 15.

It is possible that one of these two aborted babies would have been a doctor who would discover the cure for cancer of the common cold.

The other child might have been a physicist and discovered how to make fuel instantly from the air.

What about God? Couldn't He have prevented this? Couldn't He have protected these babies or have placed them in the womb of another female?

Yes, He could have.

But the point is that He didn't. He created two lives and allowed those lives to be revealed in the body of a nine year old girl who had been raped and by this allowance He issued a challenge to trust Him, to have faith in Him.

Maybe this was considered, maybe not. But it should have been.

People, in their arrogance about knowing what is right, in their great ability to see into the future and know how things are going to turn out, said, "This cannot turn out well. We must kill these babies."

My Bible, God's Word, still says "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." Pro. 3:5 KJV

Someone, somewhere, trusted in their own understanding rather than having faith in God that He knew all about that young girl and her stepfather and those babies. And they killed those babies.

And we are diminished because of it. We will never know exactly how diminished we are because we will never know what God would have done with those two lives. We will never know what we have taken away from ourselves and how we might have been enriched through the lives of those two babies.

God can make good out of anything, you know.

Worldwide, we have diminished ourselves millions of times now through the killing of unborn babies.

How much brighter would our world be today if we had their little child smiles and their little child laughter? How much different would our world be today if we had never embraced this kind of killing?

All it would have taken is faith in God.

We seem to have trouble believing that God can be God if we'd get out of the way and let Him.

Please pray for revival. And have faith in God. In every circumstance of life. He can handle it.

In His Love
Walter