Choices, every day, presents us with choices. Our lives seem to revolve around choices. Consider some choices you are free to make:
- When to get out of bed
- What to wear
- The car you buy
- Your spouse
- Lunch from the restaurant’s menu
- Where to go on vacation
- Which blog or book to read
- And on and on…
While some choices are of little consequence, like choosing which cereal to have for breakfast, others are life changing, like choosing the person you will marry.
Tomorrow is Sanctity of Life Sunday. It is a day we remember life and death choices. On a bleak day in January 1973, the Supreme Court made a choice allowing women to choose death for their unborn baby if they found the pregnancy inconvenient.
And since that day, we have slaughtered 63 million unborn children at the altar of choice.
This choice by the Court ushered in a culture of death. As abortion became more acceptable, it is not surprising that the sanctity of human life came under attack at the end of life. Assisted suicide is now legal in 10 states and the District of Columbia. Today, twelve states have such legislation pending, and more will follow.
Sadly, our nation is following a path of evil, deadly choices.
But there is a better way to understand choice, and it begins with the biblical truth God chose you! Paul writes:
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. 4 For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. (Ephesians 1:3–4)
God chooses life! His Word, the Bible, is for life!
Consider these verses:
Aborting an unborn child or allowing assisted suicide is government sanctioned murder, violating the fifth commandment.
Human life is God’s gift. Every human life is precious to Him and is also precious to us.
Every Christian must answer this question. Do you support choices for life or choices for death? Consider this exhortation from Proverbs:
11 Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. 12 If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done? (Proverbs 24:11–12 ESV)
If we know this truth, we must stand up for life from conception to natural death.
Pray with me that Roe v. Wade is overturned.
For a primer on Roe v. Wade, check out this resource.
If you want to learn more about taking a stand for life, this book is a must read:
