Ripples

This is a true story about a woman with a problem.

She was 33 years old and just found out she was pregnant. Her youngest daughter had just come down with German Measles. When she went for her first check up the doctor found out about the german measles and advised this woman to abort the baby because the child would either die or would be a vegetable from the exposure to the disease.

Something inside of her, call it a "still small voice", or her conscience, or call it what you will, something about the situation wasn't right. She would not abort this baby. As time drew on she continued going to the doctor and up until the 6th month of the pregnancy, the doctor kept advising her to abort. "The baby is not going to have a life worth living" he would say. She just kept going through the pregnancy, taking her vitamins, taking care of herself, doing all the things a good mother should do.

Well, the time came for the baby to come and once the baby was delivered the doctor was surprised to see this child was perfectly healthy. Not dead. Not a vegetable. This mother from time to time through the years would call this child her miracle baby. Now this child grew and got a family of his own and finally surrendered to the call to preach God's precious word to a lost and dying world, and this man is right now writing this story to you.

You see, the decisions you make today will have consequences forever. No matter how small the decision there will be an effect. It's like the ripples you see when you throw a pebble into a pond. The decisions you make are making ripples in your life and in the lives of others, even if you can't see the ripples right away.

God's word says in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, And before you were born I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations." You see God knows what is best for our lives. He knows better than you or I could ever reason with our feeble little brains. I thank God he knew me before he formed me. I thank God my mother listened to Him and not some doctor. Finally, I thank God for you the reader of this and it's my prayer that you will just learn to listen to that God given thing everyone of us has inside of us when we are met with a decision.

Because that decision, no matter how small, is an important one.