Some time ago, in Chicago, a little baby was kidnapped right out of her motherβs arms in a hospital room, while another mother left her baby in a cardboard box on top of a garbage can.
We have the feeling that in all probability the woman who abandoned her baby β and it probably was a woman β was just as much beside herself as the one who had her baby stolen from her arms.
A Registered Nurse told us some time ago that the proportion of mothers who do not want their babies is becoming alarming. We do not believe that these women wouldnβt want their babies under normal circumstances. Everybody loves a baby! But in such cases sin has come in to bring trouble and shame and misery. Some of these mothers are unwed and have been disgraced; others are separated or divorced from their husbands or would have to bring their babies home to nothing but bickering and trouble. Still others have passed diseases on to their babies and wish that they had never been born.
This is how sin wrecks lives and homes, but it is wonderful to know that βChrist Jesus came into the world to save sinners,β as we read in I Tim.Β 1:15. How does He save sinners? First He bore the penalty of sin for us: βChrist died for our sinsβ (I Cor. 15:3). But He will save us from sinβs control too, if we let Him. Rom.Β 6:14Β says to believers in Christ: βFor sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law but under grace,β and millions have proved this to be true.
Salvation is more than a religious term, or a feeling or sentiment, it is actual deliverance from the penalty and power of sin, through the redemptive work of Christ on Calvary, where He βput away sin by the sacrifice of Himselfβ for every one who simply but sincerely trusts Him as Lord and Savior. source
