Yesterday was a day many Christians have been praying about for 50 years. A day where the majority was heard. Yes, I said majority. I do not believe that most Americans would say it is ok to kill a baby if they knew the truth about abortion. Yesterday was a monumental day in American history. Our Supreme Court overturned the Roe vs Wade ruling from 50 years ago giving women the right to kill their babies. As a Christian, I know that God begins life at conception. For years many have screamed it is a mass of tissue, a blob not a baby. However, all now recognize it is a human being. How do I know they recognize this? Every state now has laws on its books that prosecute someone for two murders if the mother is killed while pregnant. If it’s a crime to kill it while it is still in the womb from a criminal, then it is a crime to kill it by choice. A human being is a person with rights no matter their age. Some use the argument that it is dependent on the mother therefore, she has the right to do with this child as she chooses. Yet, when a toddler that can’t take care of itself is left in a car and dies accidentally the mother is prosecuted. Many of us, at one time or another, will face times we need help to continue to live. Should we just let people die, is there no value to a person’s life when they are sick or old? Who gets to choose who lives or who dies? I could go on and on to make my case, but the truth of it all is that God gives life and only God is qualified or has the right to say when it is over.
Job, a man that God called an upright man, a man who sought to do everything that pleased God, recognized that God was the giver and taker of life. In Job 1:21 he remembers that he had nothing when he came into this world and will take nothing with him when he dies. He understands who God is and loves and worships Him. In Job 33:4, Job acknowledges that God made him, and God’s breath gave him life. This is the same truth that God gives us in Genesis 2:7. He created mankind in His image and gave man His breath. No other creature was created in the image of God with an eternal soul.
Job 1:8 “And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feared God, and eschewed evil?”
Job 1:21 “And said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Job 33:4 “The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.”
Genesis 2:7 “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.”
In Psalm 139, the psalmist David is speaking to God. In Psalm 139:6, he acknowledges the awesomeness of God. He affirms God’s ways, God’s knowledge of everything about him is too wonderful for him to understand. David goes on to admire God for how he was made. In verse 13 David speaks of how God created him in his mother’s womb. I can almost feel the joy David had in his heart as he gets to verse 14. In my mind, he burst into praise as he understands the hand of God formed him just the way God wanted him to be. He states that God’s works are marvelous!
Psalms 139:6 “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.”
Psalms 139:13-14 “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.”
Today, I thank God for answering the prayers of many saints on behalf of unborn children. So many who championed their cause are now in Heaven. While their prayers were not answered while they lived here on this earth, God did not forget them. I don’t know how things will move forward. There will be many who will challenge this law, some will riot, and some will be violent, but for today there is a victory for the unborn children of America. While I am thankful, I do not forget that we as Christians now have a greater responsibility to help those who are pregnant and need help. Let us not treat those in need as someone who is suffering the consequences of their own actions, but love them where they are and seek to meet their need. Let us never forget it could be us, or our daughters, granddaughters, or friend in need. We are to show Christ love, to be His hands and feet, and remember what we do for those in need is the same as doing it for Jesus.
Matthew 25:42-45 “For I was an hungered, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungered, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.”
