These are the feet of a Cities4Life counselor, our RV nurse from HELP Pregnancy Center, and a mom who came aboard the RV knowing abortion was wrong and yet still saying that if she was pregnant, she would abort. She said she was a Christian. She claimed Jesus was Lord of her life.
She thought she was miscarrying, but wasn’t sure. Our nurse is not allowed to diagnose, nor do an ultrasound if the pregnancy test is negative. The mom was indeed likely miscarrying, as her test was negative.
However, even if we could not do an ultrasound, God had arranged a divine encounter. The nurse and I spent an hour with this mom, sharing the truth of what it means to claim Jesus as Lord. After going through a quick review of what the Bible says is sin (lying, stealing, taking the Lord’s name in vain, sex outside marriage....) we had convinced this woman she was indeed a sinner. The penalty for sin is death, eternal separation from God. This caused concern for the young woman.
She assured us she had already asked Jesus to be Lord in earlier years.
“Do you know that Jesus Himself says,’Why do you call me lord, and not do what I say?’” I asked her.
“No,” she answered. “I didn’t know that.”
“Does the Bible say ‘do not murder’?” I asked.
“Yes.”
“Is the baby in the womb human?”
“Yes.”
“If you abort it, have you murdered?”
“Yes...I guess so.”
“Is Jesus really Lord of your life if you abort your child?”
She looked down. “No. I guess He is not Lord of my life if I abort.”
When she truly understood that her claims of Jesus as Lord were NOT validated by her actions, she told us she wanted to get right with God now. She prayed and asked God for forgiveness. She asked Him to truly be her Lord from this point forward. When we finished praying, she thanked us, and asked if she could hug us. She told us that now that Jesus was Lord, she would never return to a place like this again. She was grateful that we had taken the time and effort to help her understand.
That is the power of God. How deeply He must love her to have sent her to us, and have opened her heart to a true examination of who she was before God.
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Matthew 7:21-23
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
<3 Glory to God!
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