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Recently I have been pondering the vast army of people God created just for heaven. Many are there by His choice only. They were greatly desired here, but never made it to their parents’ arms. Some did, but only for a very short time. We have some friends who only got to spend a few hours with their first baby. So many children of God who did not experience life on this fallen planet.
Millions more are there by our choice, and his grace. Abortion has claimed so many lives. But, they go mostly unnoticed since we can somehow overlook the value of lives that we can’t really see by calling them a choice.
But I have a new perspective on this.
We have a child who is, we believe, with Jesus as one of the “unborn”.
And I wonder if God tolerates our incredible insanity where we willingly and purposefully choose to kill our own children, because he is building an army of the unborn. His children (they are, after all, not even really ours…) who never have to experience the hurts of this life. The loneliness. The rejection. The pain. The doubt.
God uses all of those things to sharpen us…. to lead us to a deeper trust in him… but, they are only part of a fallen world. They will not exist in the new one. In heaven.
So, in a way, I almost feel a strange pride in the fact that one of our family got to be part of that enormous group of people whom God created JUST for heaven.
Awesome.
Just a thought for the day, as we continue to process the events of the past week.
I look forward to the day we meet our child, and the countless others God gave the privilege of living at only one address for their entire existence…
Home.