And if they do survive, the massive attack continues in the hope that their souls will be lost for eternity. We may not hear the faint cries - but that doesn't mean they aren't there. Just read the papers or watch the news. The cries are loud and clear if we'll just listen for them. Our own children may be doing great, but all is not well with this generation of children.
Every child is at risk of becoming a casualty.
We're responsible for more than our own little families. If we don't care about a stranger's daughter aborting her baby, one day it might be our daughter at the clinic door. The man in the story thought his own child was tucked safely away at home - yet he was willing to inconvenience himself even risk his safety to save what he thought was another child's life. I encourage each of you to be like this man. Moved by the compassion of Jesus, he did the right thing and, to his surprise, ended up saving his own child.