Life
- Posted in Uncategorized
This month is recognized Sanctity of Human Life month in remembering the day that the famed Roe v. Wade made abortion on demand legal. While our politicians tell us that nobody cares about whether you are pro life or pro choice these days when it comes to who you vote for, something inside me cries out that it really does matter. I am very much aware that professing believers in record numbers voted for a pro-abortion president. But really it has not been the first time. Government and politics rarely come down on the biblical side of a moral issue.
Those of us who claim that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life should declare our conviction that God creates life and only God can because He is Life. We certainly do not condone mean spirited, unkind hatred towards those who are victims of the enemy. But we are called to take up the cause for the widow, orphan, weak, and helpless. The unborn certainly fall into that category. Scientific and medical research today clearly establishes that life begins far before delivery. Abortion is not a kind ministry but rather a cut throat money making business with a political and social agenda. Anyone who does not see that chooses to close their eyes and refuses to deal with the truth. While I agree that abortion is a symptom of a greater issue, it is a very recognizable issue with an ax being placed at root of the value of human life. We can argue statistics, medically, economically, socially, and politically; but it really is not that complicated. It all boils down to a person’s world view. World view determines everything. Everyone has a world view. Everyone has a set of preconceived, presuppositions that they bring to the way they look at life.
There are many people who sit in Christian churches almost every Sunday who are called Christian, but their world view is far from biblical. A biblical world view determines how you consider creation, sin, redemption, salvation, eschatology and yes abortion, life, and eternity. While all the politicians attempt to quiet the pulpits of America on the subject of Life, let’s with kindness, grace, compassion, a tear in our eye and a lump in our throat declare the Truth who is the Life. While we bemoan the decay of the national fabric of a biblical morality, we do not need to look much farther than our own church pews. Research indicates that we are more biblically illiterate today than ever and this includes those who are regular church attenders. We have somehow, somewhere along the way forsaken feeding the people of God a steady diet of His Word. Without the foundation of His Word anchoring our world view and life today, people blown in the wind of popular opinion, hollywood influence, and secular humanism. All that said, let’s celebrate life by caring and sharing the love and life of Jesus Christ.
