“It doesn’t matter if it’s a girl or a boy, just as long as it’s healthy.”
Do you have any idea how loaded, how presumptuous that statement is? And we hear it all the time. I’ve said it myself.
Translation? “Only healthy children are a blessing”. And that’s not what God’s Word says.
Do you want to see the slippery slope of a seemingly minor, yet glaring ethical error?
Countless babies with disabilities are being aborted every year. Worse than that, women are encouraged, counseled and made to believe “it’s the best thing”! And that slope keeps getting steeper.
Because now we have to answer, “what’s a disability?” Statistics show that parents abort children with an extra finger, a club foot, a facial abnormality, etc.
This is not a new idea, though. Margaret Sanger unashamedly campaigned to eradicate, through birth control, “the defective and diseased elements of humanity”.
The logical results are upon us as we put to death millions of “the least of these”. And following that we find ourselves on the brink of genetic engineering (“I already have a brown-eyed boy, I want a blue-eyed girl.”) Once we started playing God, there’s no stopping.
At The Baby Conference, R.C. Sproul, Jr. shared a raw and heartfelt message about his little girl who has “smooth brain”. She is 13, wears diapers, must be fed and needs help walking. She also has violent seizures.
Paraphrasing his story:
“Her nickname is ‘Princess Happy’, because her smile is so big when I go to her bed each morning, that her eyes are nearly shut. I reach down and scoop that baby up in my arms. “Daddy made you pancakes, Shannon.” I remember Jesus’ words…”I was hungry and you fed me…inasmuch as you did it unto the least of these, you did it unto Me.”
I look at Shannon again and I can’t believe the God of the universe would give me this opportunity to minister to Him…every day. That he would tell us ‘Unless you become like little children, you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven’, and here, Shannon is so innocent–she is my spiritual better, constantly showing me so much about the Kingdom. I beg the Lord, “Please, please don’t take her.”
We don’t just break the heart of God when we kill these little babies who are less than perfect, but we rob ourselves of perhaps the greatest means God would use to show us His Kingdom, to keep us tender, to give us opportunity to minister to Him through the least of these, to allow us to embrace the cross of suffering and show the world the very picture of His mercy on us. God’s perfect plan for us involves imperfection. He has always delighted to use the weakest among us to demonstrate the greatness of Himself.
Our culture says “avoid hardship, eliminate suffering“. We buy it, banish all sympathy for the child that will die to make a mother’s life easier, then use sympathy for ourselves to justify our heinous act.
Jesus Christ says, “Rejoice in your sufferings…”
God have mercy on us for our cruelty and ignorance.
God help us to say, “It doesn’t matter. God is sending us the perfect child.”
“Parenting is hard”. My friend announced their family motto. I agree with her 100%.
Whether you have many children or not, teaching all them to be responsible for their own things and behavior is an important part of daily operation and more importantly, an important part of developing healthy, productive people.
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