By
Lorilyn Roberts
Jesus
said in John 14:18, “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to
you.” According to the U.N., there are approximately 145 million orphans in
the world today.
Can
we be like Jesus, opening our beating hearts and stretching our empty arms
across the oceans to help destitute orphans who need our love? Can we not risk a little to sacrificially
give these little ones the knowledge of the Real Hope Giver? Can we not love
until it hurts? Can we not remove ourselves from our comfort zone of
blackberries, iPhones, plasma TV screens, and Starbucks Lattes to feel an
orphan’s pain and hear his stifled cries for love? If only for a moment, can we
enter into the movement of the Spirit of God and allow Him to stir our hearts
and move us in ways not our own and give us a longing to love one more precious
child?
But
not for the grace of God, go I. Without Jesus, we are all orphans. Let’s show
the world that Christians are indeed known by their love—enough to change the world
one life at a time.
Pray
that God would lead you to adopt. Pray that He would prompt you to open your
wallet to help. Pray that He would show you how to get involved. Let Him touch
your heart as He whispers to your soul. Someday, when you stand before the
Heavenly Father’s throne when all else has been left behind but the souls for
which Jesus died on a cruel Roman cross, you will be able to say, “I
surrendered my heart and mind to the endless possibilities You gave me, Lord
Jesus. I saved a child out of hopelessness, just as You saved me.”
Don’t
let it be, if only.
“I was moved by Lorilyn’s story of her
going to the ends of the earth to find her daughters.” Jerry B. Jenkins,
Novelist & Biographer, owner, Christian Writers Guild.
