Several years ago, a couple read of a little boy in Romania who was born without arms, not even an appendage on both shoulders. When he was about one year old they visited the orphanage where he was being cared for because his parents were unable to, and their hearts went out to him. Most of the caregivers in that orphanage would have no more than minimal contact with him because they feared the “evil eye” represented by his deformity and the bad luck they believed he would bring them.
Through discussion and contacts, this couple asked if they could adopt this little one. The boy’s mother, as well as many others, questioned the motives of anyone who would take him into their lives and spend themselves in this way, caring for one in such need of nurture and assistance. She asked, “Are you taking him to America so you can use him for experiments? I have heard that they do that in America.” Mike and Sharon assured her that this was not their intent at all. They just wanted to give him a home and a chance at life.
“But why would you want a baby like mine?” the mother asked. Sharon had had the foresight to bring a Romanian Bible with her, and opening it to Psalm 139, she gave it to the Romanian mother to read for herself:
For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
When I was made in the secret place. . . .(Psalm 139:13–15)
As the mother read from God’s Word, tears started to stream down her face. Finally she looked at Sharon and said, “If this is what you believe about my son, you can have him as yours.”
What a great testimony - the bottom line is that our beings long for God. Only in Him is the soul hunger of loneliness met – not just in love but in worship.
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