One of the things this verse teaches us is that the children of God are not immune to the possibility of being forsaken, even by their closest of kin. It has happened many times in the past and it will continue to occur as long as the world stands. It is strange behavior but it happens. Fathers and mothers have been known to sacrifice their children to idol gods, or even to murder them if their continuing to live stood in the way of their own selfish interests and ambitions. But no matter what God's little ones meet with in this life they are assured in His word that nothing can separate them from His love (See Romans 8:31-39). 

    Hundreds of thousands of babies are deliberately killed each year, forsaken, at least by their mothers, but the fact that those who should have loved them most have cast them away does not mean that God forgets about them. They do not go away and cease to have an existence, but the Lord takes them up. Their souls return to God who gave them and their bodies will be raised and glorified at the second personal coming of Christ. 

    No matter how others may behave toward God's people, great or small, old or young, rich or poor, God is the one constant in their lives. He never leaves them nor forsakes them (Heb. 13:5). He never forgets who they are or where they are. "Can a woman forget her sucking child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee" (Isaiah 49:15). 

    God's knowledge of His people is inseparably connected with His very foundation, and that foundation standeth sure (See II Tim. 2:19). How miserable is that doctrine that declares a god who may love his people enough today to count them among his sheep, but because of a misdeed on their part he may hate them enough tomorrow to cast them into eternal hell. That is not the God of the Bible.