Welcome Every Child
There are many methods by which evil invents to destroy the apex of God’s creation. Because people are God’s best creative effort, if the devil could destroy humanity, he could laugh at God. It seems from the book of Job that the devil cannot kill people directly. He can only destroy humanity by enticing humans to kill one another. However, God has always had an alternative plan. Frequently, what the evil one sees as triumph over God because humans suffer and die, God uses as an opportunity to promote beauty, truth and growth.
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God never enjoys watching people suffer. He always wanted humans to gradually become his friends, quietly wandering in a garden. Since he chose evil, God uses that as an opportunity for each one of us to get to know God again. When God is present in suffering and death, what looks to be tragedy is triumph. When God’s only Son was cruelly killed on a cross and covered with sin so deeply that even God had to look away, God never abandoned his Son. It was the beginning of the most wonderful alternative plan, eternal joy life as a gift from God for all who will accept Jesus as Saviour and Lord.
Restoring love for life through fostering HOPE
Hope is essential for life. Children, prisoners, the sick and the handicapped die when hope is absent. Humans give up only when hope is absent. But humans do not give up hope easily because to give up hope means not to seek for what they need. Not trying to find what they need for life, they would surely die. Rather than see their parents for what they really are - hopeless models and providers, most children will continually idealize their parents’ images so there is some reason to hope that their parents will somehow someday meet their needs.
Children create hope. When adults have children, they are more likely to maintain a committed relationship, plan for the future, conserve their resources, forgo personal pleasure and mature as their children grow. Without children, people become narcissistic, hedonistic and materialistic. After all, “why not eat, drink and be merry because there is no one else than ourselves to be concerned with?”
Without children there is declining hope in the world. When there is declining hope, people are less likely to have children. They argue when the world is coming apart, “Who would want to bring a child into a global catastrophe?”
Without an increasing population of children and young parents, a free market economy cannot work. A good example of this is the Ukraine, which is a country well blessed with expansive wheat fields, oil, coal and other natural resources. However, they have a rapidly declining population, mainly because of abortion, and consequently there is no employment for a large percentage of people who would otherwise be teachers, home builders, pediatricians and city planners. As a result of 80%-90% of women having had abortions, approximately 8-9 per woman, about 30% of the child bearing population is sterile. Even if they were forced to have children as they were in Romania, the instinctual heart desire for children has been broken. In Romania, the police made sure women did not abort their children, but they put their children into orphanages.
The situation is so different in Ireland. Ireland, with almost no resources at all, but with many bright-eyed, tousled-haired children, has one of the best economies in the European Economic Community. Because eager workers are plentiful, many industries are settling in Ireland.
The Filipino people should stop swallowing the population control propaganda of the government that the cause of poverty is too many babies being born, ergo couples should use contraceptives, being ligated or have abortion.
Children are our future. Children make grown-ups restore love for life.
Source: “Deeply Damage” by Dr. Philip Ney, Child Psychiatrist
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