Friends, something has been on my heart lately, to the point where I have awoken at 6 in the morning simply lying in my bed with these song lyrics running through my sleep-addled brain:
"Jesus, what was I supposed to be?
What were my eyes supposed to see?
Why did I taste of death,
Before I even drew a breath?
Or lay my head at my mother's breast, to sleep?
Oh Jesus, what was I supposed to be?"
--Acappella
These words, these seemingly whimsical, unimportant words have been floating through my mind as if trapped, wanting to escape and be free. And I realized exactly why they have been going through my head: this song is about babies that have been silenced. These words are about children who have never seen this side of heaven. These lyrics are about innocent souls who have never been given the chance to further God's Kingdom.
Let that sink in...Really and truly, please, I beg of you, let those thoughts take root into your mind. Not because I said them, but because they are echoes of the Lord's words. God puts such a large amount of importance on his children, on those who are innocent, "childlike."
Friends my heart is deeply troubled, not because of sin, no that is not what troubles me; what troubles me is that some of my fellow Christians have decided that trying to stay in line with culture is more important that following the Lord's commands in Scripture. Perhaps not all of you have decided to take this stance, and thank Heaven for that, but have you allowed those who would influence you to think and believe more in line with our worldly culture and not with Scripture into your hearts and minds? I understand the temptation, I really do, and I am certainly not infallible in his area, and I admit that I am deeply ashamed for having stayed quiet on this topic for so long. But friends, abortion is wrong. Plain and simple. There is nothing, I repeat NOTHING in Scripture that give us the freedom or the license to be "okay" with murdering the truly innocent. And the idea that its not a viable human being whilst in the womb, is a tired, disgusting, and simply untrue argument that I am so incredibly tired of hearing. The science is so incredibly overwhelming that I am not even going to delve into that aspect because it would be completely unnecessary. Besides, why should science be the "deciding factor" in whether or not we decide if an innocent life lives or dies? As a Christian that troubles me greatly, that we have allowed science to finally catch up with God's Word; but you know what terrifies me? Even the proofs of said science are not enough to persuade some.
Brothers and Sisters who believe that abortions is somehow a matter of women's rights, I ask you, what gave women the right to decide when and how life is not worthy? If babies were being tossed off of buildings, or strangled to death, or worse at the age of 6 months we would be up in arms! How dare those women call themselves mothers!? We would cry. And yet we are perfectly okay with tossing aside our conscience in destroying innocent life no matter the earthly or especially the eternal consequence. I realize that some of you may read this and think I am simply an ignorant, legalistic, judgemental, heartless person who doesn't care about people. But again I ask you, as a fellow Christian, is it loving, or compassionate, to help young, vulnerable women, who perhaps are scared about having a baby and trying to figure out how to survive this world on her own let alone with another person to be responsible for, is it loving to reassure them that murdering that innocent life is okay when in all seriousness and eternal truth it isn't? Is it truly compassionate to tell those women the lie that sure, they won't have the immediate consequence of having the baby, but that statistics show, they will have the life-long effects of depression, and serious problems to deal with in this life? Without of course regarding the even greater importance of the eternal one. I know of women who have been suicidal, incredibly depressed, and feeling like there is no hope after a miscarriage, let alone after something as awful and truly painful as an abortion. Is it loving, my friends, to feed these young women this lie, that everything will be better afterwards if they just have the abortion, and that God will think nothing of it? As Christians how is that honest? How is that love? How is that compassion?
Now, I realize that there are lots of women who have had abortion and have received the beautiful grace of our Lord and Savior; and for that I rejoice! Because God truly is great, and his mercy and grace is unending, however, those women repented of their sin, they turned to Jesus and asked for his mercy and healing. And as we all know, those who ask shall receive. I am not saying that there is no hope for you women who have had abortions, there is always hope in our Lord Jesus. But these women are not who I am currently addressing in this post. Again, I am addressing my fellow Christians who feel the need to be okay with abortion.
I am deeply troubled by many things in this world, I truly am, but I think what astonishes me the most is how a topic, or a subject rather such as the sanctity of innocent life has somehow become controversial within our Christian community. I'm astounded by this, and frankly terrified, as I feel that this is a direct correlation with Satan's influence in our culture as well as how that has influenced some of our fellow Christians. I have heard several people state, well I personally would never have an abortion but I support the right to choose. As if this statement was some sort of firm middle ground? My Friends, I warn you, no in fact I beg you to please self-examine, re-evaluate, your current mindset. The idea that you can somehow be against the murdering of innocent life, and yet still support someone else's murder is in fact a dangerous spiritual farce. That stance is not some sort of "Switzerland" position, it is still in fact, a stance for murdering the innocent. If you cannot see how illogical that sounds than please don't even bother reading any of this.
My Friends, I love you. Yes, I love each and every one you, that is why I am so very deeply troubled by this. I implore each one of you who has any one of these beliefs or stances to please examine them with Scripture, and with Jesus's own words. All throughout Scripture we are shown pictures of Jesus' grace, and that grace should extend to the innocent souls that He has created.
"Was I to be a Prophet, used in the Ministry?
The one who would find the cure to some terrible disease?
Even if I'd been born, why couldn't my parents see?
I'd have been made perfect. But You came back for me.
Oh, Jesus, what was I supposed to be?
What were my eyes supposed to see?"
--Acappella
