A Mother's Ponderings

This from my wife:

"I have been thinking about our little baby boy that entered the glories of heaven before his mama and da. 

Our sweet William was loved with much affection and we mourn his loss to this day.  I carried his little body inside of mine for 21 full weeks and then held his little body in my hands for only 24 hours.  O the pain, the sorrow, the grief, the tears that flowed down our cheeks, and the emptiness that filled our family for the first time...that fills our family still.  What a gift he was.

We anticipated his appearance with great excitement during those months, but he went to be with his Maker before I was privileged to kiss him, to nurse him, to sing to him through sleepless nights.  He would have turned 7 this year...February 9th was his due date.

As I ponder all of this afresh in my heart, I am struck anew with the reality that in these last 7 years--3 more pregnancies, 4 more precious children that bring joy and loudness to our home--over 7 million of William's peers have been brutally murdered in the same (and only) place he lived: the womb.

Over 7 million have been rejected and hated by the ones who carried them the closest, their mothers.

The one person specifically designed to nourish them fully as her womb brings the greatest protection and whose own bodily sacrifice is to bring her the great blessing!

The one who was given the ability to love with the fiercest love has loved herself more.

"Choice" is a simple word used cunningly by the devil to replace the word murder!  We must be very careful and truthful in how we speak about the act of murder by abortion!  A mother pays a hitman to kill and then discard her precious child as waste--and as Christians we have no business taking any sting out of that violent act.

Rejected.  Hated.  Forgotten.

My heart is overwhelmed It is broken.  I am repenting anew of the apathy that can fill it and so easily crowd out:

--The needed horror that would drive me to go to the places they are being slaughtered and plead for their lives to be spared (Psalm 119:53). 

--The needed compassion that would drive me to speak truth to mothers who have scheduled their child's killing with boldness, unashamed of how I must appear, taking care to never mince my words, or allow he fear of man to silence my mouth (Proverbs 31:8-9).

--And the needed zeal to address our elected officials and leaders, demanding the total and immediate abolition of human abortion, to do as God instructed (Ezekiel 22:2; Psalm 82). 

Abortion must be abolished and criminalized.  Repent with me."

Unthinkable?

What if the unthinkable happened?

What if there was a massive school shooting in an elementary school in your town? 

An attack that resulted in 20 children murdered in the halls and classrooms within minutes.  The news media splashes the report and the number of victims, and the nation groans in sorrow and sickness.  Your local community mourns the loss of precious lives.  

You whisper, "Not again.  O please, not again.  And not here, so close to home."

Reports of this type of attack are all too common.  And almost always there are the conversations back and forth, ranging from blaming guns or mental illness, and a call for some kind of solution or better security.

But... 

What if this shooting was different?

What if, in the day after the shooting, the investigation uncovers a very different nature in this attack.  The news flashes across the airwaves and headlines to the attention of Americans everywhere.  And what is the update?

That law enforcement has found, through written documentation and by verbal testimony that the shooter (apprehended alive) was not only sane, but that he was hired to commit the attack, by the parents of the children whom he shot to death!

What do you suppose would be the reaction of the townspeople in your community?  And in cities and villages across the Union?  

Horror?  Indignation?  Outrage?  

I think all of those.  I believe that it would rock the nation to the core, and they would want justice.

Do you think that the people in our society would simply demand that the shooter be charged and indicted for the violent crime of murder?  Or do you think they would want each parent who paid the shooter to face prosecution as well for their part in the bloody affair?

Or, maybe every upstanding citizen in the nation would say, 

“We cannot prosecute those parents.  We don’t know what they were going through, and they are equal victims alongside their murdered children.” 

God forbid! They would not  and should not be viewed or treated as if they were equal victims along with the children.  They were not be victims at all: they had sought out the slaughter of their son or daughter!  To call them “victims” and refuse to prosecute them would be a travesty of justice and further treachery toward the true victims—the 20 boys and girls they hired someone to shoot to death.

It is likely that you, the reader, sit in disbelief at the thought.  Such a circumstance and treacherous violence toward one's own flesh and blood could never happen. 

Could it?

Yet this type of "unthinkable" situation happens every day.

Two children, even younger and more vulnerable than elementary students are slain in our country every minute statistically.  That is 20 children every 10 minutes.  And every single one of their murders is done at the behest of the parents.  That murder is called ABORTION.

Parents who seek to kill their children are NOT victims. 

Abortion must be abolished.

Not Fearful Enough

"Most Abortion-Minded Women 

Aren't Calculating Killers.  

They are Afraid."

This was the headline of an article from The Gospel Coalition Web site on May 19th, 2019.  This assertion is a factor in the mindset of the ProLife establishment.  It fuels the idea that women who choose abortion are victims.  ProLife people will therefore often conclude that the guilt of the mother is lessened, and in some situations completely erased.

But let us consider that 

There are a lot of members of the Mafia, who killed because they were afraid...

AFRAID the authorities would catch them.

AFRAID the person would talk.

AFRAID they would have to share the money.

AFRAID to lose their reputation as a tough guy. 

AFRAID the Boss would kill them.

Does being afraid absolve members of the Mafia of guilt?

There is no doubt that fear can be a driver of murder.

So what?  

That doesn't change the fact that murder is still a sin and a crime.

And abortion is murder.  It should be treated as such.

I would have to say that the reason people murder their children in abortion is because they are not fearful ENOUGH.

There is no escaping the fact that regardless of why parents may choose to commit child sacrifice, they are lacking the ONE FEAR they SHOULD have.

Psalm 36:1 "The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes."

We find it again in the New Testament: 

Romans 3:10-18 
10 "As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:" 
11 "There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God." 
12 "They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one." 
13 "Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:" 
14 "Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:" 
15 "Their feet are swift to shed blood:" 
16 "Destruction and misery are in their ways:" 
17 "And the way of peace have they not known:" 
18 "There is no fear of God before their eyes."

As Pastor and abolitionist, James Kip Farrar puts it:

"There is no contradiction between being fearful and being a calculating killer.  In fact, they fear losing safety, security, and prosperity, and they calculate that killing their child is the best way to avoid losing those things.  But ultimately they are not fearing the appropriate person...the One Who can destroy both the body and the soul."

Jesus Christ, while He walked among us, warned us of the following in Matthew 10:28 "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."

The fear of the LORD is good.  It drives us to repent of our wicked way, and run to Him instead.

Proverbs 14:27 "The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death."

Proverbs 16:6 "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."

(https://not-a-victim.com/)

Abortion must be abolished.