Sanctity of Life Sunday

When I was still trying to accept what my life might be like I asked God,

"Why couldn't I have had a child with Down Syndrome?"

To have a child who could communicate, walk and laugh was something I could look forward to.  Possibly the child could learn to read and play sports.  A child with Downs Syndrome seemed practically normal compared to what I was being told to expect from my daughter.  A child with Downs Syndrome could love me back with big hugs and smiles.  The child could participate in play and enjoy the normal things in life.

What is it that God sends to earth to begin a life?  The physical parts of a beginning embryo is well known.  But what makes those cells begin to form a brain at just a few weeks after conception?  Is the spirit of a baby normal or disabled before God sends it to earth?  Is the task for the person to accomplish decided before they leave their heavenly creators side?

How can man make a decision about the worth of what God began?  What human pride, satanic deception or fear causes a mother and father to stop the growing within?  Why do we believe life is better with perfect people?  Jesus was perfect and He was rejected.

If someone accepted the perfect son of God as savior how can they then reject what He sent to earth because it is not perfect?  What reasoning says a perfect child is best?  Maybe because they are like us, they are not different, they are not scary or unknown.  We know how they will laugh and what they will sound like.  We know how they will play, how they will talk and how they will eat.  We are not afraid of the perfect child.  We know they will be like us.  That is what we want...someone like ourselves.

If they laugh different, if they walk different, if they talk different and if they look different we reject them. An animal will do that, pick on the weak or deformed, sometimes killing them.  God made us higher than the animals, with a spirit, in His image.  We marry our mates, unlike animals who have no formal way of honoring each other.

As we get away from God, His image, we begin to act like animals.  We live with who we like, we have babies whenever, we reject the imperfect, we think of preservation of self.  We abort 80% of all special needs babies, we abort 9 out of 10 Downs Syndrome babies.  All to have the perfect life by our own making.  All to gain inner happiness at all cost.  We want to pick what we think will fulfill our emptiness.

How many families are denied the joy of a different child, are denied learning what only that child can teach...are deceived to believe that ending that abnormal life is the best way.  Are persuaded to believe medical doctors who pretend to be all knowing.

Her parents were advised to put her in an institution.  They would not, they kept her with the other five children. She had Downs Syndrome.  Now, forty years later, many family members have been blessed by her love, innocence and joy of living life.  The Lord has used her for His purposes.  She is not perfect or the same as the other children, she is different.  No one would think of aborting her or denying her life now.

In trying to gain a greater happiness we only destroy the one chance we had to work with the Creator himself in fulfilling His purposes in a world that will soon be gone.  That little body is destroyed but that spirit that God sent to earth and was rejected is in heaven with many others praising God!

This life will last for a short time.  We must be brave, bold and trust in Him.  The reason many reject the imperfect or unwanted baby is fear...fear of the unknown. 

Perfect love drives out fear.  Jesus is perfect, do not fear.  He is in control of all babies.  The little ones are with Him, He knows them and had plans for them.  He had blessings to bring to many through them.

"Perfect" will never be a part of our fallen world.  For there is only one that is perfect and He will knit each baby together in the mother's womb until eternity.



Psalm 139:13  "For it was You who created my inward parts; You knit me together in my mother's womb."

1 John 4:18  "There is no fear in love; instead, perfect love drives out fear, "