Who am I?

"This is what the LORD says-- your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself” - Isaiah 44:24.

Did anyone see “Oprah” on TV earlier this year - I believe it was on Friday, Feb. 8. The test tube babies of the 80’s have come of age...and Oprah had some of those young people on her show.

These children had no identity apart from a mother, and were in a constant search for, not only their father, but for other siblings. They admitted with tears that there is a huge void inside that needs so desperately to be satisfied, and they are willing to use all their energies to seek the truth. These young people were consumed with the hope of learning their true identities.

The heartbreak of their situation was summed up in the words of one teenager, who said that he only knew he was from test tube #46.

One mother, when asked by her child –where their father was, explained that another man, who already had a family, was loving enough to donate and that made the child a “love child.”

Here in Great Britain, there's an old bell jar that sits on top of a cupboard at a Cambridgeshire fertility clinic where history was made; it was in a dish inside this jar that the world's first IVF baby spent the hours after her conception. With the success of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), scientist Robert Edwards and his gynaecologist colleague Patrick Steptoe had changed the future for infertile couples around the world. Louise Brown was that first IVF baby (picture above). Louise is now 35 years old, and, what was then a revolutionary scientific advance, has become a routine medical treatment.

Since that time, more than five million IVF babies have been born, and it's easy to forget quite how controversial the idea of fertilising human eggs in a laboratory was at the time of Louise's birth. "It was viewed with absolute suspicion," says Professor Peter Braude, head of the Department of Women's Heath at King's College London. "If you talk to people today about human reproductive cloning, the feeling you get that it is playing God is just how it was in 1978 with IVF."

We live in a world today, and among a people who have no idea - not only of who they are, BUT where they came from. How in the world can we expect them to know where they are going?
Most are using all their energies to learn their true identities.

Well, there is good news for them, and for us...”God decided in advance to adopt us into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and it gave him great pleasure” - Ephesians 1:5 NLT. When someone introduces them to Jesus Christ, or for that matter, when you introduce anyone to Jesus Christ, he provides that person with their true identity, their true purpose in life.

Instead of music today, a child from the Eastern Christian school - “Adopted into God's Family”.  Click on the picture to play the video.