Faith Bolstering

Look at this wonderful picture! This is our Tuesday sidewalk team! The sidewalk is bursting with folks speaking LIFE! This isn't even a picture of our full team -- two other team members had not yet arrived, one was absent, and I was taking the photo. LOOK at all these blessed volunteers, eager to speak out for the lives of little unborn people doomed to die at the abortion center unless someone intervened.

The ages ranged from senior citizen grandparents to a thirteen year old. I spoke with the wonderful woman who brings a carload of the young people each week. She told me, "They cannot wait to come. No matter what else is going on, they never want to miss their day out here."

Those young people have a knack for getting cars to stop and take our literature. Maybe it is their fresh young faces and exuberant optimism. Meanwhile, the grandparents in the group speak to the abortion-minded women with gentle wisdom, seasoned by a life of experience loving and following God.

All ages, all different approaches, all used and valued by God. One baby we know of was saved. I hope other women changed their minds after we left. However, as God says in many different ways in His word, The horse is prepared for the day of battle but the victory belongs to the Lord. Proverbs 21:31.

We are called to prepare and to obey God's command to enter the fray, no matter our age, our gender, our desire, our agenda. However, the victory belongs not to us but to God. This is an incredibly freeing truth. It is NOT all about us, our wonderful personalities or charming cleverness, which is a good thing since were that so, it would feed our arrogance or fuel our despair. Instead, it bolsters our faith. The glory and results and praise belong to God.
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John 17:20-22 

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one,