Life Matters - May 18, 2022
As a parent myself and having many friends who are parents, there is a natural intense desire in parents for our children to not only survive, but to do well in life. This naturally intense God-given desire, if not squelched through unnatural pursuits, is a desire that every parent has and puts them/us Light years ahead of cold government bureaucracy. Yes, in making the best choices for our children, which is why I am pro-school choice, pro-mask and vaccine choice, anti-government, daycare centers, etc. It also waves in heavily on why I am pro-life. A society that promotes abortion is a society running roughshod over the natural emotions—the protective caring instincts—of parents for their children. Abortion-on-demand, so being in opposition to the natural love developing in a mother along with this child in her womb, is against nature. And it is unnatural for a father to forsake his child and his/her mother to such a husbandless and fatherless plight, denying the natural protective instinct of men for women, the “weaker vessel.” In denying his manhood, he is less of a man, as defined and exemplified by the word of God. My heart goes out to the young people of this generation who are often deceived by this hippie generation, now in places of influence and power, that rejection of restraints leads to more pleasure when in actuality the rejection of restraints leads all who go there into a desensitization to the natural pleasures that God gives and allows. The end result is not unlike the drunk going through life in a drunken stupor, desensitized to all that formerly gave him pleasure, explaining the rise of sexual perversions in a promiscuous society and personal life. Abortion-on-demand becomes an option because of a coarse disregard for anything not aligned with this mad dash after biblically unlawful pleasures. God calls us to repentance, a change of direction and reconciliation. And acceptance of responsibility.
Make no mistake, this present day Holocaust abortion industry, coupled with the theory of evolution, is taking its toll on the finest of human instincts. The instincts that are most like God, that of the strong providing solace and protection for the weak.
There is a simple solution to all this. Repent. Repent from fornication. Repent for not making room for children in your life. For refusing God. Turn your heart, life, and spirit over to Jesus Christ. When we choose His way first, He gives grace for every time-consuming responsibility and turns those responsibilities into joy and well… just fuunn! And 10 is the perfect number of children! For us. I have never and don't plan to ever tell other parents how many children they should have. After all, do I want to bear the responsibility if some or all, don't turn out right and go on into a Christ-eternity? Absolutely not. So I refrain. As I think we should. But abortion? What about abstinence? Controlling passion? How about rejecting this “hookup culture”? What about adoption?
We cannot avoid reaping what we sow. With abortion we may gain temporary wants. But we lose the eternal values of sacrificial giving, caring, soft and loving emotions between parents and their children. Let us sow love and reap love. In Jesus Christ we benefit, as do our children and children’s children.
Life Matters!