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On Focus on the Family.
"If abortion's about a woman's rights...
...what were mine?"
Timely conversation indeed.
I just love her humility and thankful spirit. God be praised for giving this world the gift of Gianna Jesson. She speaks a gentle truth that cuts deep into the heart. It's hard to be self absorbed and stay in your pity party after listening to her.
I am thankful to God that He is using Gianna to remind the world that these unborn babies are real human beings. Gianna is the reality of that life we are snuffing out and that blessing we are depriving the world of because of abortion. How we need God to make that connection within us. May we all be convicted by this living "statement" God has made. May we never even have a thought that children with "disabilities" will somehow have sub-optimal lives.
The Bible says,
Behold, children are a gift of the LORD,The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like
arrows in the hand of awarrior,So are the children of one’s youth.
After listening to her and being so truly blessed by her, I wonder...
How many times has God placed a blessing like this in our hands only to have us destroy it before we have a chance to witness God's grace and love for us?
How many rape victims did God, out of His love, give a child to in order to be an arrow for that woman to fight off the pain and shame of what has happened to her?
How many gifted children have been aborted who God gave to make the world a better place and teach us more than we can imagine?
How many times has He, in His grace, blessed the fornicator or the adulteress with a child, instead of condemning and pouring down His wrath on her as she deserves, so that she might repent because of the goodness and love He bestowed upon her?
Could it be that the very things we perceive as being curses and hindrances to us are actually the very things that God is giving us to bless us abundantly?
"do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering,
notknowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?"(Romans 2:4)
Strong's definition of 'riches' (ploutos) says "valuable bestowment".
He has given the unborn child as a valuable bestowment upon us out of His goodness so that His gentleness, kindness, patience, and tolerance will lead us to repentance, because He is not willing that any should perish but that all might come to repentance... And we despise His gift?
In so doing, our calloused and unrepentant hearts store up even more wrath for the day of judgment. And then we foolishly assume He would not condemn us because He is a God of love? It's because He is a God of love that He will condemn us. The blood of the children He has given us cries from the abortion clinic and hospital trash cans and sinks. He loves these children. They belong to Him. He knows them. His eyes are constantly beholding them.
What have we done, Lord? Forgive us. We know not what we are doing.
1 comment:
Des, you are our John the Baptist, our Jeremiah... and you must not ever be afraid of their faces (Jer 1:17) because Baby if you try to be silent... it will burn forth from you... you have a message that has to be proclaimed, someone has to speak for those human beings...
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