The Bottom Line: Choose God

The bottom line is every moment of life, we can choose right or wrong. We can all come up with zillions of rationalizations to choose wrong. Some are even quite convincing. It doesn't matter. There is right and there is wrong. When we choose right, we move towards God. When we choose wrong, we move away from Him.

I stood for forty minutes on the sidewalk outside the city's busiest abortion center, baking in the oppressive sun and wilting heat, watching a mama sit in her car crying. She had been in and out of the center several times, clearly conflicted. I called out to her with a megaphone I made from paper, but I am unsure she could hear me. Her car windows were rolled up and she was on the phone. Every time she got off the phone, or out of the car, I spoke through my makeshift megaphone.

Please. Let me help you. We have a message of hope, of truth, of life, of mercy, of grace. God loves you. He loves your baby. There is no obstacle you face that cannot be overcome.

When I wasn't speaking, I was praying. Then my team joined me, and we all prayed. I told them I would not close my eyes, however. I would watch the mama, and if she left the car, I must be ready to speak to her.

Finally, she backed the car out, and pulled out of the driveway. She paused as I approached her car, telling her to please stop, let me speak with her. Let us help her. She looked at me in anguish, tears streaming down her cheeks, and drove away.

I believe the baby is still in her womb. I suspect others on the phone were trying to convince her to kill her child, but in the end, she could not. The bottom line is every moment we can choose right or wrong. Oh Lord, help her choose right.
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Joshua 24:15

And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

Proverbs 3:5-6 

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Psalm 32:8 

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.

Jeremiah 29:11 

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Philippians 4:7 

And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 11:14 

Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counselors there is safety.

Proverbs 14:12 

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.