WHY CHILDREN SUFFER

   The CDC is reporting the return of measles, a highly contagious disease that inflicts children, and  cases in the United States are beginning to be reported.
   In the United Kingdom, measles is now an epidemic, according to the CDC.
   Across 36 European countries in 2011, there were 30,000 cases; and in Africa, there were 36,000 cases in 2009 and that number has now escalated to 173,000 cases in 2011.
   Numbers for the suffering of children are disturbing:
   750,000 of children worldwide, from five years old and younger, are suffering from diseases and malnutrition, and, in 2010, nearly one million children, worldwide, died from the silent killers of diseases, malnutrition, cold and heat, and starvation before their fifth birthdays.
   According to UNICEF, "Everyday, the equivalent of a major earthquake is killing over 30,000 young children.  They die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far removed from the scruitiny and the conscience of the world."
   The plight of children worldwide is virtually invisible.
   Approximately 80% of missing persons reports are for children.  Millions of children are abducted and most of them vanish, never to be heard from again.
   A large percentage of these missing children are from the traffick of child prostitution to feed the evil minds of pedephiles worldwide, and even children as young as three years old are sexually abused.  These people take pleasure in abusing children because there is no manner of evil that evil people will not do.
   Each and every day, I pray for children worldwide.  I pray for my grandchildren and for children I do not know because I know that God cares for them as much as He cares for me.
   It is obvious that governments worldwide are not interesting in the suffering of children because of their silence.  It is obvious that the news media is not interested in the suffering of children because of their silence.  It is also obvious that many churches and religious institutions are not interested in the suffering of children because of their silence.
   What, then, must God do in order to get the attention of people?  He is doing it now, but it seems that people are sleepwalking through life and more interested in watching television and being entertained, when, in fact, many of the evil people who are sexually abusing young children are on television screens every day:  people in governments, in religions, and in entertainment. 
   Evil people are also masters of deception. 
   On the day that Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, the Lord was not thinking about Himself, for He was thinking about others, when He said: 
    Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.
   Have you ever wept for a child?  Have you ever wept for your own children and grandchildren?