O Lord, our Lord,
How excellent is Your name in all the earth,
Who have set Your glory above the heavens!
2 Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants
You have ordained strength,
Because of Your enemies,
That You may silence the enemy and the avenger. –Psalm 8
I want to underscore one simple yet profound point by way of reflection on the above Scripture. ‘Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have ordained strength.’ Ultimately, we understand as Christians that there is an archetype Babe elected for the world from eternity past, born of the Virgin Mary, wrapped in swaddling cloths and laid in a manger. We understand, in a proto-evangelical (cf. Gen. 3.15) way, that the Seed of the woman came and crushed the head of the serpent. Indeed, the strength of God was made manifest through the Babe for the world in Jesus Christ, the Man from Nazareth; obedient unto death, the death of the cross.
That is the most central aspect that I take from Psalm 8. But another, more sinister reality of this reality can be made by way of inference. One might wonder why the most innocent and vulnerable among us in the world—either children in the womb, or outside of it—are targeted so viciously by the abortionists and child sex traffickers; that is, why are pagans so bent on destroying the youth; whether that be through murder in the womb, or by taking their innocence from them in the process of sexualizing them? Why would the Enemy through his pagan spawn so target the “least of these.” Why did Herod target children under the age of two in an attempt to wipe out the Messiah, the coming King? Exactly that. The Enemy of our souls, from first to last, hates nothing more than the idea that God has saved the world by first becoming a babe in the womb of a woman. This resonance for the serpent of old remains. He seeks to destroy the babes, the infants as much as is possible as an homage to his hatred for the Son of Man, come as a babe. The murder and destruction of young lives is the satanic sacrament of the religion of death he is lord of. Maybe this deathlord is so deluded that he still thinks he might be able to thwart yet the coming of the Son of God. Or maybe the coming of the Son of God in the womb of Mary, as the way of Life for the world so irritates the son of murder, that as an expression of his nugatory life, he is constrained by his hatred to bring death where in fact God has brought ultimate Life; through the gestation of His Life for the world in the womb of a mother.