Having the abortion made sense to the doctors. They were playing the percentages and hedging their bets. Why carry a baby to term and even risk the life of the mother is you can just abort the fetus and start all over? For Pam and Bob Tebow, it wasn’t about percentages—it was about life and about God. Pam and her son Tim are scheduled to do a commercial during the Super Bowl to discuss her choice.
Faith doesn't make sense to the world. The world operates on the dual principles of science (what I see) and moral relativism (what I want). Faith drives us beyond either of those.
Sometimes faith is simply the decision to trust that God is there and will ultimately work in all things to bless those who trust Him… even when we can’t possibly understand how. That was the decision Pam Tebow made in bringing her baby to term. That is the decision that many believers are making in Haiti today in the face of unbelievably horrific suffering.
Some would see that kind of faith as childish. Maybe Jesus would agree! In our reading for today from Matthew 11:25-26, Jesus says
“I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.”The most learned and wise in the Jewish community rejected Jesus and opposed his work. It was the simple who came to Him and were healed by Him. Sometimes faith is pretty simplistic—we decide that we will believe that God “exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him” (Heb 11:6). And we live that way, trusting God to make a difference in this life and the next.
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So your god doesn't intervene when she gets dysentry then lets her slip into a coma knowing that she will be advised to abort?
You then all it a miracle when all is well. What about all the babies that god let be born damaged?
Your logic is seriously sick.
God's faithfulness in the lives of people like the Tebow's doesn't depend on outcomes. If mother, baby or both would have died, they would have gone to be with God and God is faithful. Rachel, the wife of the patriarch Jacob, died giving birth to a son; King David has a son die just after birth. God was faithful in all that.
Faith obviously doesn't guarantee positive outcomes in crisis (though I think it is OK to celebrate the ones we see, like the Tebow's). I don't know how God decides which prayers to answer "Yes" and which to answer "No." One of the perks of being God, I would think, is that you don't have to explain Yourself. The final world on human suffering is the cross, where God declared solidarity with us and met us in suffering and death to provide the only final solution to death, life eternal.
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