No death occurs apart from the purpose of God, no life occurs apart
from the purpose of God.
In the original creation there was no death – it was intended that
Adam and Eve would be “fruitful and multiply” and they would literally produce
life in a deathless world – not one life that would have been conceived would
ever die. Awesome isn’t it? But when Adam and Eve sinned, disobeyed God – then death
comes to all and to many in infancy and childhood.
It has been stated to be an educated guess that perhaps half the
people conceived die before they reach any level of maturity. The question then
is how God deals with these infants and children. Would the answer comfort?
Would it encourage? Would it give hope? Would it discourage? – Do they go
instantly to heaven? The answer is yes! Scripture, the word of God, affirms the
salvation of all the little ones who die.
Look at Psalm 139 vs. 17: “How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of
them!” David has written some precious
thoughts, some divine truths that he treasures and holds on to. What are they?
The Psalmist holds that God knows everything about him, even before he could
even talk. Beginning with verse 1, “O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Thou
knows my down sitting and mine uprising, thou understands my thought afar off. Thou compasses
my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there
is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, thou knowest it
altogether.”
God is actively involved in every aspect of his life: “Thou hast
beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such
knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain
unto it. Whither
shall I go from thy spirit? Or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I
ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold,
thou art there.” He will never lose sight of you nor knowledge of you
and where you are every second of every day. The point is this, that these
precious thoughts of David tells us that God knows every little single detail
about our lives from beginning to end, starting from before we could even say a
word. How can God have such a personal intimate knowledge of us? The answer is
that God is our personal creator. Look at verse 13: "For Thou didst form my inward parts. Thou
didst weave me in my mother's womb."
God puts the male and female chromosomes together. He wove my DNA. He
personally made me.
He determines our destiny. It
is not as Forest Gump’s mother said a box of chocolates that one never knows
what you’re going to get. He plans our lives. Verse 16: "Thine eyes have seen my unformed substance." You saw me in Your
sovereign view before I was ever formed. And in Your book everything about me
was written down, the days that were ordained for me when as yet there wasn't
one of them." God knows everything
about me even before I can talk. He is in
total control of my life. I can never be lost to
God. There is no circumstance that can in any way limit His knowledge. The
reason He knows me so well is He is my personal creator who has planned
carefully my destiny.
Lives are
not being conceived willy-nilly and God's not involved. David is speaking for
every man. He is speaking of an intimate association between God and each human
creation. God is intimately involved in every little life... He is there in
every single conception. This indicates to us how precious every life is. If
every life is so precious that God knows it all, plans it all, guards and
protects it all, never loses sight of anything then they (These lives) must
matter to Him. Since God is by nature a Savior and is not willing that any
should perish but all should come to repentance, and since God would have all
men
to be saved, there is every reason to believe just
from that alone that a caring God who created that life, who guards that life,
who knows intimately everything about that life, should that life perish
physically in its INFANCY there would be every reason from that Psalm alone to
trust the GRACE of God who is by nature a Savior in behalf of that life, the
life of that infant, unborn or born that has not reached a condition of
maturity.
Next I will reference Scripture verses that show the salvation of infants.
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