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Thursday, April 25, 2013

The Low Cost of Human Life

"The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.”

                                                                                                Job 33:4

Over the past several months we have watched with horror as dozens of men, women and children have lost their lives through horrendous school shootings and senseless bombings. At Sandy Hook Elementary a gunman cut down countless grade school students without demonstrating an ounce of remorse. In Boston, two brothers are accused of using pressure cookers to maim and kill innocent women, children and runners at the Boston Marathon.  Why? It seems as though we have crossed a new threshold of depravity. How could these wicked men knowingly set out to kill children? The answer is simple, although not easy to accept. As a nation, we have so devalued the human life that it no longer considered sacred.

Every day, in this country, approximately 3,300 babies are aborted. That is over 1.2 million lives that are ended. Whether you consider the act of abortion murder or not, the killing of these defenseless, innocent children is clear evidence that the value of human life has been diminished.   In Philadelphia, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, an abortion doctor, is on trial facing 4 murder charges for aborting children past the prescribed 24 weeks of viability.  Three of his staff members have already pled guilty to third-degree murder.  By legalizing the taking of human life, it was only a matter of time before abortion providers began to take liberties beyond the prescribed statutes of viability. Dr.Gosnell’s case is evidence that human life has no more value to abortion providers at 28 weeks as it did at 6 weeks.

However, the Word of God is clear about when God sees a life as being viable! In the Book of Jeremiah, God said:

“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

In God’s eyes, Jeremiah wasn’t a viable human life when he reached 24 weeks, his life had value, purpose and direction before God even formed him.

King David declared in Psalm 139: 13-14:

“For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

David’s life didn’t simply have value when he was born, but it is clear that his life had value while he was still in his mother’s womb.

The senseless school shootings and bombings are not going to end by passing more legislation.  The Boston bombing suspects were hatching out their plan while our politicians debated gun control and background checks. The answer to our dilemma is not more legislation, but for our society to once again place high value on human life.  Every child at Sandy Hook Elementary, the eight year old boy killed in the Boston bombing, and the millions of aborted children whose lives are ended each year were all viable human lives in God’s eyes. Were they to you?

                                                                                                                       

Pastor Scott Burr

http://faithandworshipseries.blogspot.com/

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