Nothing to Deserve It
By Victoria Johnson

The summer of 2007 has been one of the most amazing summers of my life. Sowers International has blessed me with the opportunity to travel to China twice, once in May and once in July. Both times I visited a different orphanage and I truly was more blessed than I was a blessing. I thank God for sharing His precious children with me. In July we spent about one week at an orphanage. On our third night there I was awoken by a crying baby. At first this did not shock me because we were sleeping directly across the hall from the nursery where the young babies sleep. But then I realized that the cry was loud and persistent so I began to wonder. Next I heard the voice of the director of the orphanage. With that I put on my jacket and my shoes and went outside to see what was happening. It turns out that at 4:15 that morning a baby (Charity) had been found in a box at the gate of an orphanage. From the looks of her umbilical cord, our guess is that she was about a week old. It turns out that she was crying because they were bathing her.

After getting a bath, she then got a warm, dry outfit on, had some breakfast and then my favorite part of the day came. I got to hold her. As I did I wept. I prayed and I wept for this little girl. As I cried out to God on her behalf all I could say was that this was not fair. What did she do to deserve this? She did nothing to deserve being born into an orphanage as opposed to a family.

As I pondered that reality throughout the rest of the trip, God also had me contemplate another truth. The truth is that neither I nor anyone did anything to deserve being adopted as sons and daughters into His family. We did nothing to deserve it, yet He calls us His own and has become our Father. Please pray for Charity, that she would grow up to know that she too can be adopted into His family and that His family is the best one could ask for.