God is love, and in His great love He created the world and the whole universe. "The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;"(Prov. 3:19). Everything was created by his word. The world created by God was perfect and beautiful. What do you think has changed since the time of the Garden of Eden and the fall of the first people? Who is to blame for so many wars? Why do people kill each other? Who is to blame for the pain, the wounds, the disappointment? Who is to blame for the fact that so many children have to grow up without parents?
We blame God for many things, and yet, we don't always ask our Heavenly Father for advice before doing something. God created us in His own image and likeness. Hence, a great deal depends on us and on our words. If God created the earth with His word, just think about the power a word can have, and how much we underestimate it. We often speak, without realizing that we do not always bless others with our words.
Why do I speak about words in my article? The reason is that I do not always hear words of blessing in reference to children who have no parents. More often words of pity, and quite over and over again I hear people say that they would not take someone else's child, because they do not know what kind of "genes" they have (alcoholics, drug addicts, etc.). Only please, I implore, dear readers, that you understand, children in orphanages are not always from disadvantaged families: someone's parents might have died, someone gave birth at a young age, etc. I also want to talk to believers. Tell me, did God forgive you a lot? Or have you never sinned? Before we come to God, each one of us had sin in our blood, no matter the family we were born into. It was only when God cleansed us that He gave us new "genes". I have also heard this version, "you raise them, and they still sin and go out into the world." Do you think that is characteristic only to orphans? Even the righteous fall, and stand back up and continue walking. I am sorry, but our personal relationship with God, and service to Him has absolutely nothing to do with our genes...
When we tell a child that he or she is an orphan, and therefore will not accomplish anything in his or her life, it doesn't just fly past their ears, words have the potential to grow, like seed, and so we reap exactly what we sow. Speaking in such a way, we plant a spirit of rejection in children, a sensation that "nobody needs me". Even when a person grows older, this spirit does not rest the thoughts or actions. I beg you, my dear friends, speak words that sow into the future. There is no need to put the "orphan" stamp on someone's life. We were all orphans at once, and God has adopted us. No matter how old the child, for whatever reasons he is brought up without parents, we need to know that this is God's child, and every one of us needs warmth, understanding, care, tenderness, every person needs a family. One girl in an orphanage wrote: "I know that I have grown up and no one will take me. But, God, I wish that I had a house that I can always come back to." Not everyone is in the circumstance to take a child into their family, but believe me, everyone can open their heart...