Dave’s Monday Blast – October 21, 2019
Have you ever heard of the Miracle Baby of Dachau? Helga Page was born on April 2, 1945, in the barracks of Dachau, a concentration camp in southern Germany. Her birth occurred nine months after her mother was raped by a German prison guard. Her parents were not Jewish; they were imprisoned because of their opposition to the Nazis. Her mother hid her under camp garbage so German soldiers would not kill them both. Twenty-seven days after her birth, Dachau was liberated.
Helga survived the next six years in an orphanage while her mother recovered enough to care for her. Eventually, her mother married an American soldier who took them both to America where she grew up. Helga Page died in late September at the age of seventy-four.
There is an alarming rise of Anti-Semitism in Europe and on American University and College Campuses. For years efforts have been underway to deny that six million Jews were murdered across Europe. Most people refer to this effort at genocide as the Holocaust; the Hebrew word is Shoah which means catastrophe.
In Psalm 122:6 we are admonished to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. If there was ever another time where we need to be fervently praying for this peace, it is today. What happened eighty years ago when the Nazis were on the rise could happen again in our days.
Pastor Jim Denison comments, “Our God loves all His children, Jew and Gentile alike, therefore; we are also to love all humankind. There is no Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male or female ” (Galatians 3:28). Jesus died for the “sins of the whole world” (1John 2:2), because his Father “so loved the world” (John 3:16).”
Denison continues, “If you are like me, you can become overwhelmed by the lostness of the world. If we can’t reach them all, why try to reach any? Reading the news each day and caring for all those who are suffering can lead quickly to compassion fatigue. If we seek to love every hurting soul, we can end up loving none. We can become callous to the pain of others as a defense mechanism and lose our heart for those God loves.”
Helga Page was not the only “miracle baby” born into the world. So are you. And so is the very next person you see. The Holy Spirit is preparing today those He wants us to influence tomorrow. God will INTENTIONALLY lead you where He can best use you. I suggest you ask Him for your kingdom assignment today, he’ll make it clear. And day by day, you’ll do what only you can do and touch the souls you are meant to touch…one at a time.
