A Noble Theme

A pro-life culture

Most people who know me know that I am vehemently pro-life.  I find that term to be interesting: “pro-life.”  It’s interesting because many people who claim to be “pro-life” are, in fact, only “anti-abortion”, which isn’t a bad thing to be.  We can certainly connect with God’s heart by being “anti-abortion.”  Abortion is wrong because murder is wrong, but why is murder wrong?  It’s wrong because God is pro-life.  God loves life and creates it with joy and gladness in his heart. We need to love life that way.

I am definitely against abortion, but I believe we are missing the mark when we reduce the pro-life stance to simply being against abortion.  We have a pro-life culture when we celebrate life, when married couples aren’t afraid of getting pregnant, when we open our homes and hearts to the orphan and the widow in distress.  We love life when we go out of our way to help single mothers and fathers.  Let the reader understand that I am pointing the finger at myself here.

I understand I’m walking on thin ice, but bear with me.   I’m not against all forms of birth control (though I am against popular forms of birth control that prevent implantation, thus causing spontaneous abortions).  I believe that God gave us dominion and that includes the issue of family planning.  It’s not wrong to take measures to keep from getting pregnant, but it is wrong to take those measures out of fear that a baby will mess up your life.  I find that many young couples are simply afraid of having a baby because the world’s wisdom says it’s better to accumulate wealth before having children so the addition of children will not upset one’s lifestyle.  Remember, the wisdom of God is foolishness to this world.   Let it be known that God loves babies and we need to love them more than we love a comfortable life! Again, having a comfortable life is not wrong, but prioritizing comfort-ability and convenience over new life is wrong.  A better attitude might be to say, “I don’t think I’m ready for a baby (or another baby) right now, but God knows best and whatever He decides is fine with me.”  The Bible makes it clear that children are a blessing from the Lord.  How many of us refuse God’s blessing because we have our own plan for our lives and it doesn’t involve children until a certain point?

Let’s join together to start a culture that is truly pro-life.  It begins with us.

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