A Difficult Article to Read; A Difficult Reality to Deal With

October 29, 2006

I don’t post this article to mess up anyone’s comfortable little world. However, it is my opinion that we need our comfortable little worlds a little more messed up. For this world is a sinful one, a messed up one, and as Christians we should by no means be ignorant of this. This article details a young woman’s killing of her unborn child by shooting a gun at her belly. That’s horrible for sure. But what is worse is that a circuit court judge threw out her case, saying that she is somehow exempt from the law. Why? Well, why else? Abortions are legal, so why can’t a mother do such a thing?

Now I really do grieve for this young woman. Her story is tragic, and I have no doubt that the power of the enemy is at work. However, we run ourselves and our society into the ground when we fail to hold people responsible for their own actions. Worldviews collide in debates such as this. And the quotes in this article reveal those worldviews. They don’t go deep enough, but if we look below the surface we can see the presuppositions that are driving such statements. You can easily tell who believes in objective truth and who doesn’t it–even in a few short statements.

Where there is no God or at least no objective standard of moral right and wrong, anything goes. Well, maybe not anything, but the standard becomes relativistic. What the community or culture thinks is best becomes ‘law.’ That’s scary stuff and that’s the America in which we live.

We need revival brothers and sisters. We need an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. For before we go on pointing the finger at everyone secular, we need to realize that the problem is with us, the church of the Living God. Let us repent of our sin. And let us pray for the Church and this nation. May the Lord have mercy soon. Or else we might be soon forsaken.

A Difficult Article to Read; A Difficult Reality to Deal With

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