WE ARE ALL BORN WITH A DEFECT
Our #2 grandson, was born in 1991 with a defect. Our tiny little baby had a problem with a very big name; White Parkinson Wolf Syndrome. Ryan’s defect was a form of tachycardia, a heart condition. In other words he had an extra natural pacemaker which would cause his heart to beat rapidly and erratically. His Mom called him, her miracle baby!

When our daughter, Jennifer was going into the 7th grade she became afraid which caused her to be sick. I took her to see the Doctor for a thorough examination. He checked her all over. He asked her to open her mouth. He then asked her to stick out her tongue. He wanted to check her throat, tongue, tonsils etc. He asked her again to stick out her tongue! After the third time he turned to me and asked; "doesn’t she ever stick out her tongue"? I thought for a moment and said; "I don’t think I have ever seen her stick her tongue out"! His diagnoses was perhaps she was allergic to milk. Cut out milk products for a while and see what happens.

That school year a young Speech Therapist called me and asked if I had ever looked inside Jennifer’s mouth. "No I haven’t", I said! "However, she has been to see the Doctor many times and just recently was examined by the Doctor and they always looked in her mouth". "Why, I asked"? The Therapist said; "Tonight, I would like your family to look into each others mouths, especially around the tongue and then look into Jennifer’s". "She has a thickness under the sides of her tongue which restricts her speech process. I believe, if that is clipped, Jennifer would be able to speak much more clearly and easier". All her young life, Jennifer had great difficulty talking. In every grade, she required speech therapy. Jennifer was born with a defect!

Bud, my brother-in-law, had a younger brother who was born deaf. Because he was deaf, he had to be taught differently . Eventually he could talk and when he tried to speak, he spoke with a labored slur and disjointedly. He could sign brilliantly! He lived in a world that gave him peace and quiet but he could see that all around him was activity of sound. Denny was born with a defect!

Many are born with a noticeable and sometimes not readily apparent defect. Ever since
sin came into the world, the defects appeared and would take many forms. Sickness is born of sin! Not our individual sin but because of sin in the world. Sin brought death to man and now man must die because man will sin! Sometimes we look at disease and illness and say; why me? "All have sinned and fallen short of the Glory of God". Romans 3:23; In 1 John 1:8-10 it says, that some may want to disagree with that and say that they do not sin. However, we only deceive ourselves. To say we do not sin only makes us a liar and also calls God a liar, who says that all have sinned. 1 John 3:5 tells us that Jesus came to take away sins, because in Him there is no sin. Back in 1 John 1:9 it says, that God is faithful and just, and will forgive us our sins.

Even so we must be careful, because in 1 John 3:9-10 it tells us that one who is born of God cannot sin. This means that we won’t want to sin! It goes further to say you can always tell who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil. The proof is in the pudding so to speak. "Whoever does not do right is not of God, nor he who does not love his brother"!

Some say that we are born with an empty hole inside of us. We are born with a defect! Christ Jesus is the only one who can fill that empty hole. Because we live in a sinful world we will experience what this world has to offer. Jesus was willing to sacrifice Himself for us, defects and all! No matter what physical defect or disease we experience, God has promised to make us whole! Our sinful nature can make us defective but Christ can take those defects and we can become the person He has created us to be. What a Savior! Jane Ann Crenshaw 2/10/08