A few days ago
in the early evening I was setting in a restaurant with my ear buds in my ears
listening to a Podcast. The cast I was
listening to was from Amazing Facts – Bible Answers Live titled Feeding on
God’s Word which aired on Saturday, December 19, 2015. Pastors Doug Batchelor
and Jëan Ross are the moderators. During the broadcast a caller named Roy
listening from New York presented the question, “Do aborted babies wind up in
heaven? And who takes cares of them and feeds them?”
When I heard
this question posed it peaked my interest. Pastor Batchelor referenced
scriptures; the first was in Job 3, where Job cursed the day he was born and
questioned would he have been better of being born dead and the other was,
Matthew 18:10, “See that you do not
despise one of these little ones, for I say to you that their angels in heaven continually see the face
of My Father who is in heaven.” NASB
Pastor Bachelor spoke of there being babies in heaven but the question was will
all babies be there. With this in mind Batchelor explained his rational of
whether all conceived would be in heaven, but this is not exactly substantive
to my thought process at that moment. The area that I was brought to was a
conversation I had had with my daughter about her brother who was stillborn.
At around the
age of I’d say…ummm…maybe 8 years old she asked me what her brother looked
like. And the honest response was I didn’t know. I had not seen him. Now less
forward nine years later. After returning from the hospital, on a chilly
December afternoon the day of my daughter’s death, a thought pierced my being
as I walked from the garage to the house. “She knows what her brother looks
like now.” I looked up and the sun just seemed to appear from behind the clouds
as confirmation and all I could do was smile. And I am sure this is what
carried me through the ceremonial homecoming and burial of my only living child.
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