Right to Live

I recently received an update from our World Vision sponsored child who lives in India. When asked what he learned through World Vision about some of his Child Rights and Protection, he wrote, "Right to live, right to protection, right to participate, right to survive."

His desire reflects the desire of children all around the world.

 

His desire reflects the hearts of mothers all around the world—for their children to live.

 

This is a world full of wickedness, trouble, and darkness. Yet, the Light has shone in the darkness.

 

Our prayer as mothers is that our children will turn from the darkness to the Light, Jesus Christ. That is my prayer for this young man as well, that he would have life by believing in the Light, that he would become a son of Light. (John 12:36)

 

In Moms in Prayer, we often pray from Acts 26:18 for unbelievers:

 

Open _______’s eyes and turn him/her from darkness to light,

and from the power of Satan to God, so that he/she may receive forgiveness of sins

and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in Jesus.

 

Jesus said in John 8:12, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

 

Referring to this verse, Steve Hall wrote, "The Lord Jesus Christ illumines mankind to all of God's truth and life." ("I Want to Know More of Christ," page 222)

 

Life—the right to live, the right to protection, the right to participate, and the right to survive. Isn't that what is at the heart of all we do for our children?

 

That heart should stir us as mothers to put aside the busyness of this culture and get down to serious battle in prayer. May we shine the Light of Christ "to illuminate and destroy the works of spiritual darkness" (Steve Hall) as we persist in prayer, crying out on behalf of those not yet living in the Light.