Immaturity makes us feel the need to defend God, and hurts the one He loves!

I grew up in a pastor’s home; there was always someone in the church that wanted to talk about my father. I was so immature that I felt the need to defend him. It is a natural response. Many times as kids someone has made a comment about our mother or father perhaps even a grandparent and we rushed to defend their honor, “take it back…. Take it back or I will punch you….. “. Please don’t act like I was the only one.

The Lord showed me today that we tend to do the same thing as children of God. We become militant, “we are right, how dare they go against God, surely it is my job to point out all their wrongs……” if this is not you then you know someone like this. Is there a time to point out wrongs? Yes, in a loving way. Is there a place to remind all sinners that they need Jesus? Yes, but let’s use his example.

Exodus 3:14

God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel, ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

         God will show himself as he sees fit, as he did with pharaoh. I bring this to you today, God does not need use to be the police of sin, he does not call us to stand up to the bullies. Like Peter in the garden he is saying put away your sword, I don’t need you to defend me. Remember “the greatest of these is love.” In the words of Jesus, love your God and love your neighbor.

         I offer this thought, what if we showed Jesus not through fighting gay marriages and abortion, but channeled that money through providing free marriage counseling for God ordained male and female marriages that were headed to divorce. Instead of rallying at an abortion sight or fighting the courts we financially assisted mothers to make sure they could raise the kids, or arrange adoptions. We change how old the baby can be when its aborted and we call it a win, Jesus is saying show me to them and they won’t ever want to have an abortion and the problem will be no more. These problems come from sin and only He can remove them.

        You can’t shame people into a love for Jesus. You cannot defend the one who needs no defense. If you truly love a parent you do as they wish, you obey what they ask of you. It is the same with our Heavenly Father. I heard it said one time God is hard to bash or talk bad about when his messenger comes with a gifts of love for those in need. It’s time we realize Jesus doesn’t look like a lawyer in a court trying to stop the sin of abortion, he looks like the friend or neighbor that says I know it will be hard and it wasn’t planned but God loves you and I will help you, you are not alone. Why can’t we as children of God spend more time saying “you are not alone”?

Abortion, Self-Idolatry

Jeremiah 1:5 (NIV)

"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."

As born again believers we are the prophets to the nation, commissioned by our Lord and Savior Jesus. If God knew us before we were formed, he knows the person and the spirit before it is born. Life begins at conception. I cannot imagine God’s horror.

Personal note:

I want children, I think of all the aborted kids and I cry. I was weeping and praying on day and asking God “what about all those children lost, all those workers for the kingdom, all those gifts and joy, lost worshippers”. God showed me children playing, He revealed to me, what Satan has meant for evil, He can use for good, while not His will, heaven has embraced the children, heaven is full of the laughter of all those children and their presence fills the kingdom.

But why do we allow this to continue, because we are a country of idol worship, it infests every aspect of our lives. If you have ever seen the movie “The Devil’s Advocate” at the end the devil says that vanity is his favorite sin. We are a nation of self-love individuals. Even in the Christian church it runs rampant, look around any church on Sunday, notice the fashion shows. Hear the people talk before and after service not about God or the work they witnessed for the kingdom, but about hair styles, clothes, cars, “got this one on sale”, ” I lost a few pounds”, “ how do you guys like my new phone”, and on and on.

We are a generation that cannot get out of its own way, “I want the enjoyment of sex, I want the sin of adultery, I want the fornication, but I don’t want the consequence of sin”, says the generation. This is why abortion exists. We sacrifice unborn children to the idol of self.

The people of Israel also had issues with idols, and with self-idolatry. In fact for their own benefit, they sacrificed their children to idols. Let’s take a look at what God has to say about that.

Ezekiel 16.20 (NIV)

“And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough? You slaughtered my children and sacrificed them to the idols. In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood. “ ‘Woe! Woe to you, declares the Sovereign Lord. In addition to all your other wickedness.”

Not only do we allow children to be offered up to idols, we forget those children belong to God, and we forget we were once just like them. Not only have we left he fold, but we take His children away. No one can argue that each of us started out just like the aborted babies. Conceived and growing in our mother’s womb, how dare we presume that our own wants and selfish justifications are worth the life of that child.

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Prayer:

 “Jesus, I plead your blood over my sins and the sins of my nation. God, end abortion and send revival to America.”