The newspaper recently described a family that moved away and abandoned their beloved pets at their former home.
It is a cruel thing to forsake a simple creature that has developed an attachment and reliance upon his masters. But how much more cruel is the abandonment of a child by its mother, by abortion or by simple neglect!
Children are stashed off in a crib because they are unwanted and interfere with their mother's social activities. They are unloved, emotionally abandoned, and the damage is profound.
Friends walk away from friends without explanation. Siblings cut off their own brothers and sisters over petty squabbles. Even spouses abandon each other through divorce or coldness and disinterest.
Pets and people are abandoned by those who decide that the cost of friendship and loyalty is too great, a cost they are unwilling to pay.
The Apostle Paul was a social creature - he often referred to his friends and colleagues - and he expressed the pain of abandonment during his trials. But he proclaimed, that the Lord never forsook him!
The Scriptures urge us to love one another and bear one another's burdens. We ought to be careful not to fall into this cruel sin of abandoning those we owe a duty of affection to.
But God promises us He will never abandon His people! What a comfort to the Saint who has suffered the cruelty of abandonment by friends and family!
Nothing can separate us from the Love of God in Christ Jesus! Hallelujah!
It is amazing that the Lord Jesus never abandons us, since He had the best reason to do so: the awful cost of His love was the cruel death at Calvary, when His Father abandoned Him as He bore our sin!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
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