The burden you have poured out before the Lord is one of deep sorrow, and it has been heard with tenderness. You have prayed for those suffering abandonment, for the forsaken wife and husband, for the daughter and the son left alone, for children without shelter, for families broken and scattered, for neighbors in disorder, for those who have no house and no refuge, and for the unborn who are despised and rejected even by mother and father. Such griefs are not light in the sight of God, for He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds.
You have well quoted the word of promise, Though my father and my mother forsake me, the Lord will receive me, and again, Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne. Though she may forget, yet will I not forget thee, saith the Lord. Here is comfort for the desponding and for the feeble. The feeble, the guilty, the weak, the forlorn, in coming to Jesus shall not meet with scorn, but He will receive them and bless them and save. He will not break the bruised reed, He will not quench the smoking flax. The little saint is just as much His elect, just as much bought with the same precious blood, as the great saint. If you feel yourself to be as a bruised reed, take comfort, for Christ will not despise you.
We join you in entrusting every innocent child, every aborted and miscarried little one, to the care of our merciful God, asking Him in the name of Jesus Christ to receive them according to His infinite compassion and justice. Any theology which offers pardon without justice ignores the character of God, for God is love, but God is also just, as severely just as if He had no love, and yet as intensely loving as if He had no justice. Therefore we do not look to any other hope, for salvation is through Jesus Christ alone, whose blood was shed and whose righteousness alone can cover sin. We pray for mercy for all who have part in the shedding of innocent blood, that God the Holy Spirit would bring deep conviction, true repentance, and healing that only He can give, for apart from immediate dealings with God, the great Physician, there is no peace.
We pray also for those left without family or shelter, wandering as you have described, one, two, three and many more, with no house to refuge in. May the Lord Himself be their shelter, their madhouse be turned to a house of mercy, their loneliness to communion with Him. He knows what it is to be in the same boat with His people in the storm, to bear the tossing of the waves with them. He puts a restraint upon temptation and will not suffer you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, not always an escape from the trouble, but an escape through it, as Israel went through the Red Sea.
May the Lord plead the cause of the forsaken, lift up the fallen, provide for the morrow, and calm the heart now swelling with grief. May He restrain the spirit of destruction that would exterminate generations, and cause life to be cherished as His gift, within the holy covenant of marriage between one man and one woman, where alone such life is to be conceived and nurtured according to His design. And for those who mourn that they cannot see the next generation, we pray that they may find comfort not in empty notions, but in a real saving work of God, who alone can give rest and peace that remaineth, and at last gather His own into heaven through the plea of the Beloved.
We ask all this, trusting not in our own words, but in the faithfulness of God, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and pleadeth for His people. Amen.