My wife and I have done extensive work towards trying to make a difference in the lives of little one’s whose worlds have been ripped apart but we and the few others that are out there working within this effort need help. We need a lot of help. This is my cry out for help from other brothers and sisters in Christ.
Perhaps we are asking the wrong questions about what to do with CPS (DFPS, etc). Something drastic needs to be done as there are a lot of children out there suffering at the hands of many starting from their very own birth parents and then the list only grows from there. And yes this list also includes the very system that is supposed to help them.
More people need to step up and offer to be part of the solution for the children out there who desperately need loving and stable homes.
WIIFM??? That’s “whats in it for me” for those who do not speak corporate lingo. First of all, a Christian ought not have to ask that question as it should not be about themselves but instead it should be more like “What can I do to help those in need?”. But since most still will want an answer, here is one, if we do not do it now then you the citizen (and taxpayer) will be dealing with the repercussions when these little ones grow into adults without the nurturing love that is needed to develop them into sane and functional adults. You will be the ones paying for the damages that will come from these products of a broken system.
Now what can you do?
A place to start is to lobby your state government officials. Call out to those who can directly make a difference. We can start with offering the idea of abolishing the current system and encourage the policy makers to come up with a solid alternative other than the one that fails consistently regardless of the “fixes” to the current system they continue to provide and that continue to fail. The process continues to get band aids that cover up symptoms instead of actually addressing the root causes. After a while one must conclude that something is not fixable and a ground up rebuild is required. Ironic that the same can be said about Public Education but that is a discussion for another time.
The next step you should take is to open your hearts and homes and offer to take in the beautiful children out there who do not have a mom or dad to love them. While they are hemming and hawing about what to do the fix the system you might as well dig in now and be a part of the solution.
The Christian’s life focus ought to be one that is selfless, not selfish. I say this because I know what most people are going to say in regards to this challenge…but it’s not what I like to do, or I can’t do it, or I already have a child, or I…I…I…Me, me, me, me. Sorry but I get this a lot when people find out we have adopted four children and have another in the process. I get the narcissistic responses that generally go like, “bless your heart, I could never do that…”.
True born again believers cannot be narcissists…
I may be narrowing the scope of available volunteers with my harsh words here but these children do not need self-absorbed people who are doing it for themselves. The children need their rescuers to be doing this purely out of selfless motives.
Jesus said “And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.” Mark 10:44-45
Christians, this is something you should be considering. Your calling is to serve others as your Saviour served you...
Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others. Philippians 2:4
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:17-18
Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard. Proverbs 21:13
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel. 1 Timothy 5:8
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Galatians 6:9-10
When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. Matthew 25:31-46
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27
Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. Galatians 6:2
Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:12
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