Why Don't You Get a Job?

"Why don't you get a job?"

This is a common statement shouted at Christians who bring the Gospel into conflict with the evil of abortion.  I have heard it from people going into the child sacrifice center, and also from out of car windows from those who are just passing by!

Somehow, folks seem to think it is a clever way to really tell a person off, though it is in reality incompetent, illogical, and irrelevant to the subject at hand.  

I have heard motorists call it out as I stood on a street corner with an abolitionist sign, and I look at my sign, wondering, "Can they not read?  Do they think my sign says: 

'Need money...wife and two cars to feed; anything helps'?"

I heard it once on a street corner on a Saturday afternoon, as I and other fellow Christians brought Truth to the Streets, with signs and preaching.  A guy who was obviously agitated by our presence screamed, "Get a job!"  I was like, "You are aware that millions of Americans who have jobs are off on Saturdays?"

I remember a specific conversation years ago, outside of an abortion mill, with a man who had brought his friend to kill her baby.

Him: "Get a job!"

I asked: "What gives you the idea that I don't have a job?"

 Him: "You're here aren't you?"

Me: "If that's you're reasoning, why don't you get a job?"

Him: "What makes you think that I don't have a job?"

Me: "You are here, aren't you?"

Him: "I took time off to come here."

Me: "I took time off to come here too.  But I came to rescue people, not to lead them to their murder..."

and continued calling him to repent.

BY THE WAY...

preaching the Gospel (Matthew 28:18-20; Mark 16:15), 

as ambassadors of Christ (I Corinthians 5:20),

being salt and light (Matthew 5;13-16; Ephesians 5:8-16; Philippians 2:15),

declaring truth in the open air (Proverbs 1:20-21; 8:1-3; Isaiah 58:1; Acts 17:17),

loving neighbors in word AND deed (Luke 10:27; James 2:8; I John 3:18),

exposing the evil of sin, warning the wicked (Ezekiel 3 & 33; 22:2; Ephesians 5:11), 

pleading for the fatherless (Proverbs 24:11-12; James 1:27), and

seeking equal justice (Proverbs 31:8-9; Isaiah 1:16-17; Amos 5:14-15; Micah 6:8),

is the job of every Christian.  

Therefore, my beloved brethren, you have a job.  

Do your Job!

I Corinthians 15:34
"Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame."  We don't want to be workmen that have reason to be ashamed.

It is a shame upon the body of Christ if we are not contending for the abolition of the great evil of abortion due to cowardice, callousness, complacency, convenience, complicity, or compromise.

The primary means God has ordained to display His manifold wisdom to the world is through His people (Titus 2:11-14). Abolition is an obligation of the church.  It is a mandatory ministry to fulfill her ordained purpose—to be salt and light in this sin-sick culture of decay. The church was specifically commissioned to bring the Gospel into conflict with every dark deed of man!  It's a job for sure.  But it is our job!

And consider  Job, whose actions in this regard are found in Job 29:12-13, 15-17:

"...Because I delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to help him. The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me: and I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy...I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame. I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out. And I brake the jaws of the wicked, and plucked the spoil out of his teeth."

Let us not only do our job, but let us be like Job in this generation. 

Even it is the Job nobody wants.

Abortion must be abolished.