The Writing on the Wall: Jesus is NOT Okay with it....

My fellow counselor, Chrissy, stopped a car on the way into the abortion clinic.
"You don't have to do this," she advised the woman, "We have real help and real hope."
"I talked it over with Jesus for a whole week," the woman replied, "And He is fine with it."
Then she drove in. Chrissy told me what the woman said, since I was on microphone duty at that time. I had the perfect verses to address this issue. The woman's car window was still down, so I know she could easily hear me.

"If you think Jesus is fine with abortion, you are deluding yourself because the Bible is clear. Psalm 139 tells us: For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

"There can be no doubt that God creates life, and that He loves and knows us from conception. The unborn baby is human, and her value is determined not by place, size, level of development, or dependency, but by the fact that she is made in the image of God.

"The Bible is also clear that for that reason, human life is sacred, and to take the life of an innocent human being is murder. God commands, Thou shalt not murder. If you claim to love God but ignore His commands, you have to question whether you really love God. Hebrews 10:26 tells us For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins and John 14:15 tells us If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

"So if you claim to love God, then you will obey Him."

I went on with other topics, knowing the women in the center can still hear me on the mic as well -- how Cities4Life (the group we volunteer with) could help, how we knew their plight was difficult, but we had heard terrible stories and still many women choose life and manage, how abortion is devastating in so many unexpected ways to the mother including medically, spiritually, and morally. Etc. If you read my blog regularly, no doubt this is all familiar to you. We sidewalk counselors don't reinvent the wheel each week. We just speak the truth as clearly enunciated in the Bible, and show up to proclaim it.

The woman went in the abortion center anyway.

One teen and her mother approached the center as we called out desperately to her. She reached the door, pivoted, and told her mother she was not staying. We all rejoiced as the mother followed her brave daughter back to the car, and they drove away. One baby alive that was scheduled to die that day!

At the end of three hours, those who had aborted began streaming out. We tried to give literature of God's healing comfort, but most zoomed away, averting their eyes. But one car stopped. It was the first woman Chrissy had talked to. She rolled down the window, wiping her eyes.
"I didn't do it," she told us. But she didn't know how she could manage. We wrote down her list of needs, gave her a gift bag, and took her phone number. I gave her my number, and circled the resources in our literature that would be useful to her. Our RV with the mobile ultrasound was not there due to repairs, so we called the nearby Pregnancy Resource Center, and set up an immediate appointment in the next fifteen minutes for her to go for an ultrasound, receive paperwork for doctor and medical assistance, along with other great community resources to help her. She called me when she arrived there. One little baby was about to be allowed to make her presence clear to her mother.

We prayed with her, all of us touched by her tears and despair. She asked about adoption and we gave her the number and info on our group that helps moms with the choice of adoption. She was still crying. "You are a courageous woman," I told her, "When you walked out of that place, you took a step in trusting Jesus and obeying Him. Life may be hard, but it would have been much harder if you had the death of your baby on your conscience."

Later that day, I texted her and asked her immediate need. Size 2 pull-ups for her one year old. I posted the need to my Facebook friends, and within minutes, had enough to supply her for a month. This is God's people in action, tangible deeds of caring support and love to a desperate world to demonstrate their faith.

This is the deal. If we love Jesus, we will do what He says. Our life may still stink. We may still be in terrible circumstances (which often are of our own making and poor choices.) But the bottom line is still the bottom line: we are called to live righteously despite our circumstances. The unborn is human life; the taking of human life is murder; the person who murders will carry that shame and guilt and numerous repercussions their entire life. The Bible is clear: it is wrong. Mothers should not murder their babies and claim God is okay with that choice.

And friends, we as a nation should not sit by and think because it is legal, we are okay with it. We should be storming the sidewalks of every abortion mill, speaking truth and life. If we don't...who will? And when those moms choose life, we should be standing alongside them, and helping them. They have to see Jesus not only in our words, but in our actions. Furthermore, every one of us should be careful not to excuse our own behavior that God has clearly told us is wrong.

A news article was just posted saying there was a 25% drop in abortions in NC since 2010, one of the sharpest drops in the nation. Not surprisingly, that's the year Cities4Life got off the ground. Speaking Truth at the point of no return to desperate women can change the culture of death. May God give all of us courage to stand in the gap on behalf of His children.
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