Message from Scripture: 3/22/2021

Our message from Scripture today is Psa. 139:13. “For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb."

Since the legalization of abortion in the United States, over 62 million of them have taken place.  What was originally promoted as a procedure that would only be used in emergency situations has become a commonplace occurrence. We know the child in the womb is a life, is a human being. Modern imaging equipment has helped us to better understand this, along with other advances in technology. So many lives have been terminated by abortion, we have become desensitized to the process of death.

But are there other ways beside the death of the unborn child that abortion defiles our land? Certainly so! One can argue that a cheapening of the view of life in the womb leads to a cheapening of life outside the womb. If one can indiscriminately terminate an inconvenient life before birth, why not afterwards? Life itself is no longer considered sacred, but the changing standards of human judgment are now the determining factor for what life is considered worthy to live or to be ended.

If infanticide can be indiscriminately practiced on infants, then who can say what limits can be applied at the other end of the spectrum, with adult euthanasia? And how old do you have to be for someone to decide your life isn’t worth living?  Once God as Creator is ignored, and the sanctity of life is discarded, just who defines what makes a life worth living?  Who gets to say what are, or are not, “meaningful interpersonal relations?” 

Life isn’t by accident, but by design; it belongs to God.  When we bequeath life as the prerogative of humanity to choose or reject, governed by sinful motives and desires, we all lose.  Honor life as a gift from God, to be lived for Him!  “You are not your own, for you were bought at a price. So glorify God with your body” (1 Cor. 6:19-20).

Robert