God used Israel to exact His justice for disobedience, just as He used Elijah to punish young men for mocking His prophet (do you honestly think they didn’t know who Elijah was?) In this case, “Love God” is often left out of our evaluation. Children with disabilities are born every day, just as women have miscarriages every day. But do we kill disabled children after they are born? Why not? Where is the dividing line? We are given more choices because of technology, but the basis of how we choose should not change. Peter was given more choices because of the freedom given to him through the Grace of salvation. But the basis of his choice : “Love God, and love others” was still the same. So do we show love to a disabled child by aborting it, or is that simply easier? Is it showing love to God? Jesus told a crowd that a blind man was born so, not because of some sin of his own or of his parents, but so God would be glorified. That is true of each and every one of us.

“We know in part, and so we prophesy in part,” never has more weight than those times where we are called upon to discern between what is of God, and what is of the world, and to judge the actions of those who are our brothers and sisters in Christ. To do so in love recognizes that we often hold the fate of someone’s eternal soul in our hands. We must be careful.