All my life, I have been pro-life. Well I have been pro-life as long as I have know what abortion is. Saturday I went out to an abortion clinic for the first time and it was one of the most emotionally intense things I have ever done.
I woke up at 5:30am, and then drove to downtown Houston with my mom and a friend. The clinic had just opened when we got there. People always build walls around that which they are trying to protect. Evidently the abortionists feel they need to protect what they are doing because there is a rather tall fence encircling the clinic. There are also escorts who wait outside the parking lot gate to usher cars in, and keep pro-lifers trying to pass out literature containing the truth about abortion out.
Standing on the sidewalk out there, you could feel that you were standing on a battle field, that good and evil were at each other's throats. I watched as dozens of girls and women were driven into the parking lot by their boyfriends, husbands, mothers and friends so they could have their babies ripped to pieces and vacuumed out of their wombs. The thought of those children being sacrificed to the whims of their parents angered me. Then it drove me to a sadness that tried to spill out of my eyes.
We think we live in a civilized world, but we really do not. Human nature does not change on its own. People sacrificed their children in the days of the Israelites, and people sacrifice their children still upon the altar of self. God destroyed the nation of Israel for disobeying Him and sacrificing their children. I am sure the number of children sacrificed in Israel comes no where close to the fifty million children who have been slaughtered in the United States.
Our nation needs the gospel desperately, and we who are called by Christ need to do something about it. And the gospel is a hard thing to preach because people do not want to hear. No one wants to know that there are absolutes and that they are answerable to a Holy and Righteous God, even if He loves them and wants to save them. And while I am here, I need to be proclaiming that message, even if it means looking evil straight in the eyes, even if it means people are going to hate me. The God who is with me is greater then all the evil in the world, and by His strength I can share His love.
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