Babies Deserve To Die

Yeah.  I said it.  It’s true.  This revelation came to me some time ago; I think it was while I was praying for the ending of abortion.  Maybe I was at a Bound4Life event.  I don’t know.  Regardless, I truly believe it.

Of course, I still believe that abortion is wrong.  A fetus is a human life, no question.  I believe that life starts at conception.  Abortions should not happen, ever.  And I’m sickened by the fact that taxpayer dollars are now funding abortions.  These are my convictions.

I believe, however, that many anti-abortion rights people start with the wrong premise.  They assume that those “cute little innocent babies” deserve to live.  Biblically, that’s a wrong assumption.  In fact, according to the Word, we all deserve death.  That any of us are alive at all is a miracle from Heaven.  If fetuses are human, and I believe they are, then they deserve death just as much as you do.

The Bible commands us to love one another.  This is love: a friend, instead of taking a girl to an abortion clinic, offers to adopt the child; a boyfriend, instead of abandoning his girl and unborn child, provides for his new family; two parents, faced with a pregnant daughter, forgive her; a woman, choosing life for her child in the face of impossible circumstances.

No human law will ever force us to love each other.  We need to find that love for ourselves.  We find it by accepting God’s love for us.  Jesus died for the people who whipped him, mocked him, spit on him, killed him.  He had mercy on us.  Can’t we have mercy on the unborn?  Please.  Let’s do it together.

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.”–John 13:34

A Fire In His Eyes

Why is God jealous for us?  We didn’t do anything to deserve it.  In fact, I think we did quite the opposite.  If anything, we should be receiving a good dose of His wrath right about now.  That’s what we really deserve.  We’ve cursed Him, rebelled against Him, denied His very existence.  And yet, He loves us more deeply than we could ever imagine.

You know, God really does love us, not for “who we will become,” as if He’s waiting for us to be perfect before He can really love us.  He really does love us, right now.  That’s why He’s jealous.

It was prophesied over me at the One Thing conference that God wanted me to know that jealousy, that fire in His eyes for me.  And yeah, I think I want to know it too.  I want to feel it, and I want to live it out.

He is who He is, and He is Love.  Real love doesn’t care if you love back.  Real love wants the best for the precious.  And God knows that the best place for us is right there with Him.  We need Him.  So I worship Him for his never-ending love.  With everything I have I pursue Him, because He has never stopped loving me.

“Blessed be God, because he has not rejected my prayer or removed his steadfast love from me!”–Psalm 66:20

One Thing

Last week, I had the privilege of attending the annual One Thing conference in Kansas City.  It was my first time going to that conference, and I had a really great time.   I got to meet some new people, build relationships with friends and, most importantly, grow closer to my God.

God just amazes me more and more each day.  Seriously, how great is He really?  Will any of us ever know?  This was the point of the whole conference, I think: Jesus is coming back, so be ready for Him.  Know Him.  Love Him.

I believe that the conference really was a capstone on what God’s been working in me for the last year and a half.  So, that being said, I’m believing for even greater things in the near future, like the next chapter in my relationship with God.  I’m not sure what that’s going to look like exactly, but I’m sure it will be good.  God has brought me this far.  How could it be anything other than good?

“One thing have I asked of the LORD,
   that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
   all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD
   and to inquire in his temple.”–Psalm 27:4

Direction and Focus

Recently, I’ve been hearing encouraging words from people towards me in the realm of, “You’re headed in the right direction.”  Those are great, because I know that I’m in the right place where God can use me.  I am on that straight and narrow path, the path to God, and people can actually see it!  But usually, right after those words comes something like this: “Keep going,” or, “Focus on Him.”  There lies the challenge and perhaps, an even greater encouragement.  I have somewhere I can go!  I can act with more boldness, love deeper, be more purified and know God more than I ever have before.  And what is the only way to go there?  “Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead.”(Philippians 3:13)  We must all be desperate for more of Him!  And that doesn’t mean stress or toil.  Finding our rest in Christ, we can have the peace and strength required to keep going towards Him.

Look for Him.  See Him.  Focus on Him.  Worship Him.  Don’t try to worship Someone you know nothing about.  Give Him glory for Who He is, Who you know He is.  Find out more about Him.  Don’t be scared that you’ll run out of things to know, because He is endless, eternally glorious.  He is God.  He is Love.  What greater joy can we have but to know Him?  I don’t know of any.

“But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.”–Matthew 6:33