What do you believe is the biblical, Christ-like way to address the issue of abortion?
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peg on June 2, 2009 at 7:25 am
Dt 30:19….choose life. Different application, but I believe God will alway choose life instead of death. He knew all of use before we were born, no accidents with Him.
tom felten on June 2, 2009 at 8:20 am
Peg, great Scripture and thoughts. God is the author of life and we (human beings) are made in His image. We, as believers in Jesus, should winsomely point to the sacredness of life and the harmful consequences of embracing death and destruction of the unborn.
msroby on June 3, 2009 at 9:21 am
I believe that having eyes of the world, lead a lot of people to live in their emotions, hopes and dreams. For someone to become pregnant there were a lot of decisions being made, that were not made using the eyes of our Lord. God makes no mistakes, it’s simple that way, however, without Him being in the lives of some at the time the decsions of an unwanted pregnancy came along, then I believe that the Lord’s wishes are to bring that baby to term rather you keep the baby or not. It’s the worlds job to raise each and every child that comes and the opportunity to bring love to that child is a gift each and every time a child is brought into the world.
Married couples find themselves with a pregnancy and if the child is not someone they want to raise, then there is the rest of the world who will want this opportunity.
Complication pregnancies, some leaving even the women in the position to have to chose between their own lives or the babies, which should it be? The only way to die for Jesus as Christians sometimes are faced with is to give their lives for a friend. The child in any particular problem has Jesus Christ in Him. Jesus held the cup and had asked that he may not have to go on and follow through with the plan of dying for us all, the fear is there, but the so was the light of the way. He died for us, and we may have to die for him. Should the choice come to either save ourselves or die for Him, I believe that one must be brave and die for the reason as the Word says, and that is for your friend. Jesus is our only friend and in each of the pregnancies of this world He will be a part of.
Because Mary and Joseph worried about what the “society” of the people around them would think about her being pregnated out of wedlock and Joseph who had thought to leave her but protect her from “societies” hands of harm, still never once thought to hurt the child as a possibility to the a solution. No, it was to bring the child into this world as God had put in their lives to do and to know it was from God to do this. It couldn’t be done without the closeness to which Mary and Joseph had that they could know what was their path planned by God.
Everything is good and evil decisions, what makes the difference is if you are close to God or far from him. Pressures of “society” can usually lead to going the wrong direction. Like Jobs friends who thought they must know why the things happening to Job had to be what they thought, because what else could it be? If you do not know that there are individual plans for each and every human being God brings into this world and more than likely you will be faced with God and your faith in him is tested to follow what seems to be “wrong” to those in “society” but you must, because you are so close to God, that even if you do not understand why, you do it anyway.
Every single thing that surrounded the pregnancy of Jesus and his birth was not what “society” would believe is the right choices or the correct direction, which is why by doing what was righteous in God’s eye and bringing the child forth was an incredible lesson in it’s self to say: Do you want to take any part of God and destroy it, when if you open your eyes to the way of the Word, that you should have peace of mind–rather you could live or die–through the birth, that it may be the time to “show” God if you would give your life for a friend.
Abortion robs so many opportunities not just for the child, but for those in the world that would become a part of the child’s life. If you do not know God, you can not even see what God does in the lives of those who even have to deal with a still-born child or one that dies soon after birth.
The Word does not say that we are going to have a long life if born, it says we will have our “free will” to chose what we would die for. An infant or fetus who does not make it, is still a life of God’s and as and infant has all of God’s hands around them during the predetermined life span of that child.
God’s hands are on the child in the woman’s womb. It’s not for us to understand it all, but we have to leave our emotions out of making decisions as they will lead us to blindness.
God isn’t about “What are your rights?”, as you think your rights should be, He is about what will you do for Him?
God doesn’t give you more than you can handle, but our decisions can make it more than we can handle or be willing to do if our hearts are not true to following Him.
Simple is that God makes no mistakes so to end a life would be a selfish decision not a righteous one.
Amen.