Trapped With No Way Out...But God

I dreamt that I was awake all night trapped in a corner with a sheer concrete wall behind me and the rising ocean before me. The waves crashed higher and harder. I was terribly cold and wet. But I cupped a tiny creature in my hand, and I was not going to let the tiny creature die. Not as long as I could stay above the waves.

When I awoke, more crushing news  greeted my inbox of state after state proposing bills to expand abortion upon demand for any reason to the moment of birth. The Girl Scouts just gave their highest award to a young lady exalting the right to abortion. A 17 year old mother birthed her child and then stabbed it to death. Another grandmother killed her daughter’s newborn baby and had the whole family involved in hiding and then burying the child in order to avoid “family shame” over unwed motherhood.

What is happening to our world?

Sin is engulfing common sense, human decency, understanding of clear boundaries of right and wrong. If we think we can legally destroy the most vulnerable among us, sever the most important bond in humanity- that of the mother and her child, and not expect the entire fabric of society to unravel, we are deluded. 

      Evil.

          And if we do and say nothing....

                            Complicit.

At the end of the dream, I had somehow clambered up the concrete wall at my back, followed an impossible route to safety and presented the tiny creature safely to those who were called upon to protect it...

And they dropped the container in which the tiny creature was nestled, and a heavy rock fell upon it.

Church, please awaken.

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James 4:17 

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.