Holocaust Denial

This is 4 of our children's half nephew.

About 20 years ago I met a precious elderly woman on a plane.  I've always loved old people and I was drawn to her sweet spirit and her old world accent.  She noticed that I was staring at her arm.  She had a tattoo of numbers on her forearm.  Without me asking, she told me that she was a concentration camp survivor.  Those numbers were her identification mark--- her mark for death.  I immediately felt as if I was in the presence of holiness.  She was completely humble as she told me about never seeing her family again and about how thankful she was to have survived at all.
Grateful that someone believed that she was suffering.
Grateful that someone responded to her cries for help.

Many years later, I had a beloved Bible Study leader who shared as part of her testimony that she used to struggle with the fact that she wasn't sure if she had had the opportunity to help a Jew during the Holocaust, much like Corrie Ten Boom had done, if she would have had the courage to do so.  
She was haunted by that idea.


Recently, Unicef concluded that there are indeed 163 million orphans in the world today.  163 million children marked for death by satan unless a complacent world chooses to stop turning the other way and pretending that they aren't there.
This is our generation's opportunity to stop a holocaust.
Lord have mercy on us if we don't.

What is happening to orphans right now as I write?

They are hungry.
They are eating trash.
They are chased away from the trash.
They are naked.
They are exhausted from running scared all the time.
They are tied up.
They live without shelter.
They live in fear of being abducted.
They live in fear of being eaten by wild animals.
They are raped.
They are prostituted.
They are beaten---in unimaginable ways.
They witness their friends being sold.
They live in fear being sold themselves.
They are forced to lie.
They steal out of necessity.
They are burned.
They are bruised.

Sometimes they wish they were never born.
They feel invisible.
They wonder why God doesn't like them.

They are crying out to the Lord because of their oppressor. Isaiah 19:20 

Just today, I heard about a prospective adoptive dad that attended a gathering of adoption families.  He came away discouraged about adopting saying,
"Those people just don't look like me."
OK.
Those people aren't hippies who have escaped from a commune.
On the outside, they look like suburban, SUV driving, professional job holding, every day American families, who go to church, send their kids to school and hang out at the ball field.
What they look like on the inside is JESUS-- re-present on this earth.
 God will always give us a mirror to show us who we are--
and who He is calling us to be.
That dad doesn't have a chance at escaping adoption-- God has His mark on him and I'm praying for him.

Once we see ourselves as the same orphans who needed a Savior-- who were rescued by a Savior-- Who gave everything up for us, then we CANNOT turn our backs on them.

On Monday, as I was tucking 2 of our boys into bed, one of them sat straight up and spoke through tears,
"Mama, remember when every day, every day Mama, I would hit you, and kick you and spit on you, and bite you and tear your clothes!!??  
Every day Mama, I did that every day!  
I'm so, so sorry Mama, I'm so sorry!"


And I was able to tell him that I forgave him before he even did those things---
to "fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name;
you are mine.  Isaiah 43:1b


I need to be telling Jesus the same thing my sweet boy said to me, every day-- every sin is a blow to Him and who He wants me to be.  
Because as for me, the Lord took me and brought me out of the iron-smelting furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, 
as I am now.  
Deuteronomy 4:20


And in a world where one third of the population claims to be Christian--- there needs to be no one left behind.  
We know better.