I grieve this morning. I got a text last night that a mother was miscarrying her child. Miscarriage is always sad, but in this case, it was even sadder because it never had to happen. It was the direct result of a culture of death, of devaluation of human life, irresponsibility, and disregard of God or any moral anchor. I was standing in the rain on the sidewalks of the abortion center pleading with moms to choose life when my dear friend Courtney snapped this photo from her car and added the text. Our team joined me a few minutes later, but I was alone when she took this picture. The picture encapsulates what I believe is the position so often of faithful Christians who love the Lord and the Scripture, and stand on the truth of what God’s word proclaims.
A young woman came to us in tears. The man with her hung back, clearly not happy with her for approaching us. The woman was pregnant, overwhelmed with her situation, called abortion the taking of innocent life, but didn’t know what else to do. I told her we could help and would she come on the RV with our mobile ultrasound, let us talk with her, and see her baby? She agreed.
The angry man joined her. She told him not to be negative so he settled into sullen silence. The few times he spoke it was to let me know that he had other kids and another on the way with a different woman. He sure didn’t want this one. He didn’t work, nor did he accept our offers of helping him find work. He didn’t feel like working. I don’t want anyone to miss this. Abortion laws helped this man continue a life of serial preying on women sexually without consequence.
As the woman revealed her situation, I countered each obstacle with concrete, tangible help and resources through our vast network of loving Christians. EVERY. SINGLE. OBSTACLE.
The woman agreed every single obstacle was included on the list I had written, with a corresponding plan of action to help.
Then I asked if the young couple knew God. They both said they did. They both said they had submitted their lives to Jesus as Lord. I shared these verses with them: “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.’ Matthew 7:21-23
I asked them what they made of these verses. If Jesus is Lord, we are to do what He says. Is He Lord of our lives if we disobey Him? I asked them if they knew the truth of what God’s word says about innocent human life. The woman nodded, tears plopping onto her cheeks.
“He says don’t shed innocent blood.”
They saw their baby on the ultrasound. We prayed with them. We shared all we knew to share about human development in the womb, God’s clear word, and tangible help we had to offer. They sat in their car afterwards for ten minutes as the “pro-choice” escorts held umbrellas blocking them from the sight of the line of our counselors silently praying for them. Then they walked into the abortion center. The “pro-choice” people were beaming. Big smiles. Laughter. A baby was successfully to be exterminated and they expressed joy. Accomplishment. No matter the woman was being coerced or that she was crying off and on the whole morning.
Later I texted her, offering help with healing post-abortive counseling. Her response made it clear she regretted taking the pill. I told her about abortionpillreversal.com, and connected her with an abortion pill reversal nurse. She felt hopeful and thanked me for all we had done. She was grateful we had been there, and even after what she had done, expressed nothing but kindness and offers of help. Our network of loving Christians were alerted to pray for a mom who was trying now to save her baby.
Later I received another text. She was bleeding. She was apparently miscarrying. The tiny baby had not won the battle against the abortion pill before help could arrive.
So I am sitting in the darkness of early morning now, waging a battle of my own. A battle of despair is clashing against optimism as I consider the spiritual forces of darkness that have deceived my nation. What happened to my country that was formed on Biblical values and a founding declaration: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”?
A young man is freed from any responsibility or consequence of promiscuous sexual activity. A young woman now bears the deep guilt and sorrow over her child’s death after her own disastrous choice. The truth of Jesus Christ as Lord is mocked. Under the guise of “choice” a little baby whose tiny life was just beginning is flushed away, and those who ushered him to his death laugh and rejoice.
Meanwhile, school shootings increase and we wonder why our children devalue their classmates’ lives. More African American babies are aborted than born in cities like New York City. Charlotte, site of the Southeast’s largest abortion center is a capitol of the sex trafficking trade. Drugs continue to destroy lives. Suicide in America is the highest it has been in fifty years. Violent crime is rising.
When innocent vulnerable life is legally expendable, and God is mocked, none of those staggering truths are a surprise.
So I sit here alone, mourning that little one’s death, and waiting for the first rays of sun to rise like a sword and pierce the darkness.
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No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.
“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.’
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
