There’s a famous story about a man clinging to wreckage out on the open sea. He prays and asks God for help. A fishing boat arrives, but the man says, “No thanks, I’m waiting for God”. A pleasure yacht pulls up, and the man politely declines for the same reason. The coastguard helicopter thunders overhead: “Fly away boys, I put my faith in God”. The man drowns.
As he walks through the pearly gates, God strides over, and the man says, “Why didn’t you answer my prayers?!” God looks perplexed: “I sent two boats and a helicopter!”
Bear that story in mind as you read about this truly unfortunate situation in South Carolina. As reported in The Independent, a family is in crisis after their 7-year-old son Ethan was hospitalized with complications resulting from measles.
Ethan then suffered from encephalitis: swelling and inflammation in the brain that has led to paralysis, and, sadly, the prognosis is not looking good.
“God has chosen Ethan for a reason.”
Parents Luis and Kristina chose to deny their four children the readily available measles vaccine, resulting in three of them contracting measles. But they say they have no regrets about what they’ve done to their son. As Kristina says:
“We wouldn’t change it any other way. If I knew this could be the outcome, I still wouldn’t have given my son the vaccine. Our biggest reason why we didn’t do it is just with all the unnecessary stuff they add into it.”
Instead, she’s putting her faith in God to save their son:
“Yes, it hurts, of course, it hurts. But God has chosen Ethan for a reason. God is doing something, and we’re gonna glorify his name regardless. … We know it’s in God’s hands. … There will be a miracle.”
I hate to be the one to break the news, but there was a miracle. It’s called the measles vaccine!
Since the measles vaccine was put into widespread use in the 1970s, it’s estimated to have saved 92 million children’s lives around the world, making it one of the most successful vaccines in human history. Beyond that, of all the hundreds of millions of doses administered, there hasn’t been a single recorded death, and there’s no data suggesting any lingering health complications.
This family has been lied to. They’ve swallowed what evil hucksters and frauds have fed them, and now their beloved son is lying in a bed with tubes coming out of him. If he recovers, he will suffer debilitating health conditions for the rest of his life. And that’s if he recovers.
So, by all means, put your faith in God, but when God sends a miracle vaccine and you wave it away, you only have yourselves to blame.
Published: Feb 21, 2026 08:09 am