A brief word of disclaiming before
we begin today. When I first began Rocky
Road Devotions I committed to a process of selecting one of the texts appearing
in the daily Lectionary. Occasionally a very
controversial, counter-culturally-correct text shows up in that process, and
today’s was a doozy! Two of the texts are a direct
challenge to the practice of abortion. Depending
where you fall on the sociology line of today’s thinking concerning the “right”
of a woman to choose to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, you might either love
what I’m going to say, or call it hate
speech, and offer to have me drawn and
quartered. My only comment at that point
is, we all have our opinion; I
get mine from Scripture, because God is wiser than Russell. I stand by what you are about to read.
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me!
“Do not permit any of your children to be offered as a sacrifice to Molech, for you must not bring shame
on the name of your God. I am the Lord….And
if the people of the community ignore those who offer their children to Molech
and refuse to execute them, I
myself will turn against them and their families and will cut them off from the
community. This will happen to
all who commit spiritual
prostitution by worshiping Molech.
There is a saying that disappeared
rather abruptly from “acceptable speech” in today’s culture – if God doesn’t punish those who practice homosexuality, He
will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Likewise, if God doesn’t follow through
on taking any culture to the woodshed for practicing abortion, the killing of
the unborn children…He owes an apology to Molech.
The Jewish and Christian view (doctrine)
of the inherrent worth to God of every human, born or not yet born, is expressed
in the Psalmist’s words that we are, created by, watched over in the womb,
brought forth in wondrous complexity, and carefully included in all the plans
God has for humanity and history. An
abortion puts an end to those plans God laid out for that child.
An agonizing worldwide statistic is
that, in the next 5 minutes, the time it takes to read this devotional, approximately
450 unborn children will be sacrificed to Molech, the god of this pregnancy just doesn’t work for me right now.
I can do nothing but weep for the
children at this point, because the country in which I reside, along with most
of the governments of this world, have a hellish disregard for life. And the plain fact is that abortion doesn’t just
wrestle with God’s creation; abortion is a fist-in-the-air rebellion against God’s will.
It is sin; it is evil; it is dead
wrong.
Let’s
Pray Together:
Father, only You know the total number of souls lost to the abortionist’s knife, and that, with the consent and approval of human governments acting out the wishes of the Adversary. Forgive us, we pray; help us to speak out so the world will know just how much evil there is in this dark path we are walking.
For You Today
You
chew on that as you hit the Rocky Road today.
Have a blessed day!
