Does Our World Value Human Life? Look at the Children...

Does our world value human life? For the most part, I don't believe that it does. I was given some facts from Compassion, a group that seeks to help raise children from poverty. I'm not advocating Compassion here. I don't know much about them, and my Church gives to help with world hunger thru the SBC. Also, my Church supports the Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes. We also collect people's loose, pocket change in a big water jug in order to give to SB missionaries to build wells so that people can have clean water. So, I'm definitely not promoting the group "Compassion" here. SB's have much going on to help the poor and needy of the world, and thus help children; doing all of it in such a way as to promote the true Gospel. But, Compassion has collected some facts about children around the world that should concern all of us, and I believe it shows that a lot of people in our world today do not value human life.

Compassion states that 300 million children worldwide are subjected to violence, exploitation, and abuse.

More than 2 million children have died as a direct result of armed conflict in the 1990's. More than three times that many have been permanently disabled, or seriously injured. And, more than 1 million children have been orphaned or separated from their families.

An estimated 130 million of the world's 15-24 year olds cannot read, nor write.

Malaria kills approximately 1 million children per year.

One person in seven goes to bed hungry every day.

Each night more than 300 million children go to bed hungry.

Every day, 12,000 children die from hunger-related causes.

More than 4.4 million children die from malnutrition each year.

More than 10 million children under the age of 5 die each year. Two-thirds of these deaths- more than 6 million deaths every year-are preventable.

An estimated 246 million children are engaged in child labor.

About 211 million children between ages 5-11 can be found working.

Globally, one in six children work.

Worldwide, 126 million children work in hazardous conditions.

Every year more than 1 million children get pulled into the sex trade.

An estimated 8.4 million children work under horrific circumstances: forced into debt bondage or other forms of slavery, prostitution, pornography, armed conflict or other illicit activities.

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Diarrhea kills an estimated 1.6 million each year, caused mainly by unsafe water and poor sanitation.

Every 14 seconds a child is orphaned by AIDS.

About 2.6 million people in the world do not have access to adequate sanitation.

Roughly one-sixth of the world's population, or 1.1 billion people, do not have access to safe water.

Water-related disease is the second biggest killer of children worldwide, after acute respiratory infections such as tuberculosis.


Have you read enough? Does your heart ache? Are the tears flowing? Do you feel like crying out to God?

I dare say that our world does not have compassion, and it does not value human life. With all that you have just read that children have to go thru, along with all the abortions that are done each year, along with all the murders that take place in our world, shows me that the world does not value human life. Oh, they may talk about it a little bit. But, do they really value human life like God expects us to value human life? No. That's the answer. No. They don't.

Thank God for all of you out there who give to help children. Thank God for all of you who adopt children from the USA and from other parts of the world. Thank God for all the people who work at places like the TN Baptist Children's Homes, who deal with abused and neglected children every day. And, sometimes it's abuse that nightmares are made of. Thank God for all of you and all that you do to help the children. Thank God for all of you faithful parents who take care of their children, and who give them love.

Thank You, Father, for being the Heavenly Father that You are...for loving Your children like you do...for caring for the children of the world...for inspiring us to make a difference in this sin infected world that depravity has done so much damage to. Help us, Father, to make more of a difference.

Amen?