Stop this mindless murder. Support the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Legalized Murder
We might not have concentration camps, gunpoint demands, and dark military themes, but there is something today that harkens back to the Nazi era in World War II: legalized murder -- in the form of abortion, which was sanctioned in January 1973. When we fight valiantly to save the life of a premature baby in one room, but happily end the life of an unborn child the same age in another room, something is woefully wrong.
Stop this mindless murder. Support the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Stop this mindless murder. Support the overturn of Roe v. Wade.
Friday, January 20, 2012
The "Final Solution": January 20, 1942
Today, on the 20th of January, 1942, Nazi Germany held the infamous Wannasee Conference. In this meeting, the “Final Solution” of the Jews was outlined.
May we use this sober anniversary to remind ourselves that murder was legalized in a land and time not so far from ours, that prejudice was carried out to its logical ends in a government that is not hard to imagine, that the climax had been reached in the outgrowth of anti-Semitism that had scorched through history: from they are not fit to live among us as Jews to they are not fit to live among us to, finally, they are not fit to live.
Nazi cruelty did not come out of a vacuum. It built upon evolutionary superiority, that all men are not created equal. It emerged from warped theology, that the Jews as a nation do not have a future, that they are a wretched race that God despises in favor of the Church.
This is blasphemy. Says Paul, “I say then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin” (Romans 11:1).
God has a future for His people, and He will not let them prevail in judgement forever. The Jews are special, they are people. Let not the Nazis terror spring up again by letting this nation of the Lord slip from our support.
May we use this sober anniversary to remind ourselves that murder was legalized in a land and time not so far from ours, that prejudice was carried out to its logical ends in a government that is not hard to imagine, that the climax had been reached in the outgrowth of anti-Semitism that had scorched through history: from they are not fit to live among us as Jews to they are not fit to live among us to, finally, they are not fit to live.
Nazi cruelty did not come out of a vacuum. It built upon evolutionary superiority, that all men are not created equal. It emerged from warped theology, that the Jews as a nation do not have a future, that they are a wretched race that God despises in favor of the Church.
This is blasphemy. Says Paul, “I say then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin” (Romans 11:1).
God has a future for His people, and He will not let them prevail in judgement forever. The Jews are special, they are people. Let not the Nazis terror spring up again by letting this nation of the Lord slip from our support.
Sunday, January 15, 2012
The God of Love
Yes, God is certainly loving. The most loving Being in the universe, for He is the only One Who would give Himself for avowed enemies. No man was His friend, for no one seeks after Him: "There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth , there is none that seeketh after God" (Romans 3:10-11).
Yet by His sheer grace, He offered salvation. Now that is love. But His love has many facets, and like we know, His is not a condoning "love" -- the "love" that accepts everything, right and wrong, the "love" whose god is personal happiness (temporal, at that).
No, God's love is mature and holy. He hates sin with a passion: "The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And the one who loves violence His soul hates. Upon the wicked He will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup. For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will behold His face" (Psalm 11:5-7).
Thus, God will not tolerate sin. He cannot stand sin, and it is with great pain that He allows Himself to endure the sin of history, it is with grace He allows this. He could have -- should have! -- obliterated us first chance He got. We disgrace Him constantly: "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5).
We would never love Him, except by the grace He gave us to open our eyes to the glory that is His. Yet He cannot just let sin slide. And this was love: That He absorbed all our sin on Himself and paid the penalty required of disgracing the God of the universe.
He paid it Himself. The God of Heaven humbled Himself as a man to pay our debt so that we could find true happiness, the happiness that could only be achieved by filling our souls with His glory.
Praise the Lord.
Yet by His sheer grace, He offered salvation. Now that is love. But His love has many facets, and like we know, His is not a condoning "love" -- the "love" that accepts everything, right and wrong, the "love" whose god is personal happiness (temporal, at that).
No, God's love is mature and holy. He hates sin with a passion: "The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, And the one who loves violence His soul hates. Upon the wicked He will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup. For the LORD is righteous, He loves righteousness; The upright will behold His face" (Psalm 11:5-7).
Thus, God will not tolerate sin. He cannot stand sin, and it is with great pain that He allows Himself to endure the sin of history, it is with grace He allows this. He could have -- should have! -- obliterated us first chance He got. We disgrace Him constantly: "every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually" (Genesis 6:5).
We would never love Him, except by the grace He gave us to open our eyes to the glory that is His. Yet He cannot just let sin slide. And this was love: That He absorbed all our sin on Himself and paid the penalty required of disgracing the God of the universe.
He paid it Himself. The God of Heaven humbled Himself as a man to pay our debt so that we could find true happiness, the happiness that could only be achieved by filling our souls with His glory.
Praise the Lord.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Foreword
A first post requires a foreword, a statement of faith and purpose.
Mine is the glory of God.
I admit, I cannot do it all of the time. In fact, I fail most of the time. But it is the wish and the desire that counts, for it is that which spurs me on when I fail and keeps me strong when I am weak.
Lord, let my life be a testament to Your love and power. I am but a private in His mighty army, a cowardly one at that, but He is a great commander and I know He can use me for His purpose, whether small or large, in the world. May I understand the answer to my prayer when it comes, and may I be humble to accept it.
I want to learn many things in life. May I praise the Lord in all I do, be diligent with His blessings, and show others His love through my actions and faith.
So help me, God. Amen.
Mine is the glory of God.
I admit, I cannot do it all of the time. In fact, I fail most of the time. But it is the wish and the desire that counts, for it is that which spurs me on when I fail and keeps me strong when I am weak.
Lord, let my life be a testament to Your love and power. I am but a private in His mighty army, a cowardly one at that, but He is a great commander and I know He can use me for His purpose, whether small or large, in the world. May I understand the answer to my prayer when it comes, and may I be humble to accept it.
I want to learn many things in life. May I praise the Lord in all I do, be diligent with His blessings, and show others His love through my actions and faith.
So help me, God. Amen.
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