God’s children

Linda Buxa

On July 1, 2015, Sir Nicholas George Winton died at the age of 106. When he was 30 years old, this British man worked in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in a refugee camp filled with people fleeing from the coming Nazi invasion.

While there, parents begged him to get their children out of the country before the Nazis arrived. He returned to London, raised money to cover the cost of transportation, found foster parents for each child, and secured a 50 pound guarantee for each child—to pay for travel when they eventually left Britain. In nine months, Nicholas Winton managed to evacuate 669 children on eight trains from Prague to London, and a group of 15 were flown to Sweden. And those children came to be known as Winton’s Children.

Those children needed Sir Winton. They certainly couldn’t save themselves. Their relatives couldn’t get them out. They needed someone to step up and make a sacrifice to rescue them.

The war that Satan and sin had waged on the world meant we were just like those children—doomed to death. We couldn’t get out of danger on our own. Family and friends couldn’t earn salvation for us. All of humanity needed someone to step up and make a sacrifice to rescue us. And that’s what Jesus did. Because he stepped up and sacrificed himself, “see what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!” (1 John 3:1).

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