Sunday, January 22nd, 2012
Mourning God knows who
Today I am thinking of only-God-knows-how-many people whose names only God knows. Maybe 52 million?
The oldest of our 5 children was born just 3 months before the US Supreme Court’s Roe versus Wade decision which was delivered on January 22, 1973. That means that those millions of babies — people — killed over the last 39 years are the peers of all my children. Only God knows which of them might potentially have been their playmates, classmates, work partners.
In a few minutes I’ll be gathering with other worshippers at Bethlehem’s south campus to hear my husband’s message to us on this heartbreaking anniversary.
I hope this day might be different than other Sundays for you. Perhaps you might:
- be gathering with others to let your presence proclaim your honoring of the sanctity of human life (For Minnesotans, it’s 2 pm at the State Capitol).
- take time to pray with compassion for mothers who are considering abortion right now and for God’s peace to to be understood and accepted in the hearts of men and women who have been responsible for an abortion.
- remember that no sin is too great for God to forgive. Jesus paid for it already for you or anyone who turns to him with faith.
- read the short booklet about abortion, free at the Desiring God websit
e
May God bless this day to you for his sake among the babies–for the sake of the great name of the creator of all human beings.
4 Responses to “Mourning God knows who”
Leave a Reply
[...] NoelPiper.com, I’ve written more about the impact of the day on me, with a link to a related free booklet [...]
I am so sad that abortion is allowed in the USA, and I hope that it will become illegal in the future!
The day my dad and step mother told me they were expecting my little brother (now 25), they also told me she had an abortion a few years before. The same conversation!
On this Sunday every year I think about that decision that took another sibling away from me. I know I’m selfish but it makes me sad.
One of the “God only knows”
Noel,
Thank you for this post, the number of children to us is mind staggering to me – especially when I think in terms of my own. I am currently reading “Third Time Around” by Dr. George Grant. It details the historical Church’s strong and repeated stand against the killing of the little ones who were inconvienent or unwanted…and so should we in grace and truth. May the Lord grant us each feet that stand.