While listening to Radio 5 Live on the way to work this morning I heard of a company that provides abortions called ‘Marie Stopes International’ planning to run a television advert promoting their services. This advert will first be aired on Channel 4 on the 24th May.
The fact that such an advert is to be allowed on our television screens shows just how far from God our society has departed. Many no doubt will rightly challenge the decision to allow this ad to run but I fear this is a mere skirmish compared to the real issue. The real issue is we live in a society where the murder of innocent babies is legal. It is hard to believe in a so-called civilised society that 215,975 abortions were carried out in Britain in 2008, in fact 1 in 5 pregnancies now end in abortion.
Our Nation should take note of the judgement that fell on another nation that was guilty of the blood of innocents. In the Old Testament the Children of Israel departed from the true God and began to follow the false gods of the pagan nations around them. One of those false gods was called Molech. The worshippers of Molech made a brazen image of a god with his arms out stretched. This image was then heated to be red hot and people sacrificed their babies by placing them onto the burning hot out stretched arms of the image. This was known as ‘making them pass through the fire’. The sad refrain over and over again in the Old Testament record is typified in the following quote from 2 Kings.
‘Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight of the LORD his God, like David his father. But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, yea, and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel.’ 2 Kings 16 v2-3
The God then was called Molech, today the method has changed and so has the name of the god, it is now called convenience, but it is the same wicked spirit at work. One in five women now find the child in their womb to be inconvenient, it will encroach on their lifestyle, it will hold back their careers or it will give them stretch marks (how awful for them). What an inconvenience! So they sacrifice their unborn child to the God of Convenience.
Surely our land is ripe for the judgement of God. If the blood of righteous Abel cried out from the ground to God there must be an even greater cry from the blood of innocents butchered in our land.
‘O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.’Habakkuk 3 v2
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I'm one of these murderers you're talking about. I don't regret having an abortion, in fact it rarely crosses my mind. I don't feel anything. Does that then make me coldhearted? I used to believe in god, I thought I was doing everything God wanted me to. But no. I don't think he ever was there for me. Not ever. I'm the one to blame of course, didn't pray hard enough, didn't listen or whatever. I just never felt any connection. I met a guy, god loving young man. Completely screwed up my heart. He was seeing someone else all those years I thought I meant something to him. He was christian, how could he do that to me. God forgives your sins. Right, that justifies it. Not. He's now married to that woman, she never knew of me. He on the other hand still wants to see me. And not just see me this time. I said no, I'm not fooling myself again. I hope he's miserable. I could tell her what he's all about, break her heart the way he broke mine. But I don't want to make a scene.
ReplyDeleteI didn't mean that much to him. I didn't seem to mean anything to god either. For no one reason I got an eating disorder. God saw me suffer through it in silence. Sought help, and fell in love with my therapist. Still trying hard to believe in god. I failed. No god. Killing myself was my only way out. And I wasn't far from dying. In my farewell letter I told my loved ones to give god a chance. What a joke. I am so glad that they never saw it. Three months later i quit therapy and started dating my therapist. At the same time I quit seeking god's help. Six months later I found myself being pregnant.
I used to be very much against abortion. Conveniant it is you say. I never saw it that way. I still had an eating disorder, I was in a relationship that wasn't to be public, I hated myself and still wanted to die. I coulndn't take care of myself, let alone a child. I sacrificed the unborn to save my own life. My point being, I don't regret it. Having the child was never an option. Not saying it was easy but it was the right thing for me. I'm still ambivalent to life, my own that is. Six years later I'm still dealing with bulimia. Suffering in silence.
What comes to abortion, it's anybodys choice. It's wrong to go advertising about it - everybody already knows it's an option. It's also wrong to judge people as murderers. But what do I know. I don't expect a reply. I guess I'm just angry and frustrated with God and I need to let it out. I wish I didn't care about god. God aint good and when he isn't, I don't want that kind of a god. Every preacher Ive met so far is a hypocrite. I hate it when they try to make themselves more godly then they are. Be real. So god has something against me, fine. If I leave him alone can't he just stop harassing me? I killed my unborn and I almost killed myself. I'm murderer. So I have to suffer for the rest of my life? Killing yourself is really the easy way out. Convenient, huh?
Hi Lina,
ReplyDeleteIt is not often that I respond to a comment on my blogpage but having read of the sad circumstances i felt that I must show you some compassion in your circumstances.
I am not sure what you were expecting from God that makes you feel so let down. Perhaps you have been influenced by the wrong teaching that is going around these days that if you become a Christian all your problems go away and you have a happy prosperous life. This is not taught in the Bible, the Christain life is full of joy but there are many sorrows and troubles just as there is for everyone else in society. God has not let you down and he does love you.
To undertstand His love you must see it in the context of the Salvation He offers to you.
You must realise, we are all law breakers, we have broken God's law. He says we should not bear false witness ( I have lied) he says we should not Kill ( you have admitted that sin to me). We are both breakers of God's law. There are consequences for breaking God's law. the Bible says that the soul that sinneth it shall die. That means we go to hell for our sins.
But this is where God's love comes in. he does not want us to go to Hell, so he sent his son Jesus, to die on the cross as our substitute. In a very real way Jesus took our hell on the cross so as we could go to heaven. All we have to do is turn from our sinful ways and ask Jesus to save us based on what He did for us on the cross.
A murderer was forgiven at the cross and promised paradise, there is hope for you too because God loves you and Christ died for you.
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For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.' John 3 v16
God Bless
Maurice