The weekend past I asked my daughter what she thought the most important question was; what, why, who, how, where or when. She came straight back and answered “why”. I asked her why and she said because the ‘why’ question, when answered honestly, reveals one’s own deep seated motivation. I was and am proud of her answer because it’s the type of answer I would give and certainly Simon Sinek would agree. But I was also troubled, because after reflecting on it I realized its not the most important question one could ask.
There’s a bill currently in the upper house in Australia which will, when passed, decriminalize abortion in the state of New South Wales, which will make it the last Australian state to capitulate. It’s in light of this controversy that’s highlighted to me the most important question one could ask of oneself.
The question is; “who am I?”
If the answer is – “I am a murderer, for killing the unborn”, then there opens up two options for me. Option one is for me to repent before Jesus Christ and ask him to change my lifestyle so I do not place myself in situations which makes abortion a difficult decision, or option two, I harden my heart and agree that I am indeed a murderer. The latter choice delays the inevitability of the cosmic court where on that day mercy will not be found and sentencing will be eternal torment. This is NOT God’s will for you.
The repercussions of option two is also disturbing because it prevents justice from being done in the world today. What do I mean? It means that if I support the murder of the unborn then I support murder, period. Meaning that I can no longer point to a man who murders his entire family in a domestic suicide and say that it’s wrong. If I keep silent because I’m uncomfortable being branded a hypocrite then I am complicit in perpetuating injustice in my world. Therefore injustice has its source in my selfishness and my selfishness has its root in personal sin.
The statistics for rape, incest and fetus abnormalities as reasons for abortion are small, and should not be held up as bastions as the leftist media has the habit of doing. It means that by far the largest group are those in their 20s who engage in premarital sex – what’s known as the ‘cheap boyfriend/girlfriend’ syndrome. U.S. statistics puts unmarried couples at 86% with 27% of pregnancies ending in abortion, 19% higher than married couples. Why are they engaging in premarital sex? There are two reasons why. 1) They don’t know it’s wrong because it goes against God’s instruction found in His manual for good living, the Bible. 2) They know it’s wrong but as 2 Peter 3 writes, “they deliberately forget.” One of the main reasons they deliberately choose to forget is because they’ve listened to the atheist voice in the world today which can even be found in some of the world’s religions. The atheist voice is not only a lying voice, but a ‘convenient voice’ because it allows a permissible lifestyle whilst trying to negate the cosmic court. The media perpetuates that voice as it bombards us with extramarital affairs in their entertainment. They are skilled in making making evil look good if not normal, as Lucifer is skilled in painting darkness as light, when it isn’t normal. It is abnormal.
Abortion isn’t so much about a mother, and a father, deciding to kill their unborn child, as it’s about a portion of society trying to cover up their sin. Therefore abortion continues to shed light on humanity’s biggest flaw – the proclivity to want to hide their sin.
There is a darker, more sinister side to abortion. Ginette Paris writes in her book, ‘The sacrament of abortion’; – “It is not immoral to choose abortion; it is simply another kind of morality, a pagan one…. our culture needs new rituals as well as laws to restore abortion to its sacred dimension. Abortion is a sacrifice to Artemis. Abortion is a sacrament for the gift of life to remain pure.” – Ginette’s definition of purity seems that as long as she has the ability to kill the unborn, then she will remain free (pure?) to live the way she wants.
Abortion is a modern day version of the worship of Baal from the ancient Canaanite religion, when Israel placed their babies in the hands of the statue Baal while it burned. A baby barbecue. Abortion was convenient then as it is today. Artemis comes from Astarte, which comes from Asherah, the wife of Baal, to which God had this to say; “They have built the high places of Baal to burn their sons in the fire as offerings to Baal – something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind, so beware, the days are coming…” – God through His prophet Jeremiah (19:5), the last prophet before exile. Those who study scripture will know that prophecy regularly repeats itself even in the world today as God works his purposes through man.
With close to one million abortions in the U.S. alone (35% of all pregnancies), makes abortion a genocide. It is a devastating thing and weighs heavily on a true and pure heart. But what’s more disconcerting than having murderers walk among us as friends, is for pro-lifers to be branded murderers by default. What do I mean? One of the reasons President Donald Trump came into office, was to ban doctors from referring women to abortion clinics, momentarily reversing the apostasy before it was sealed, because had Hillary Clinton come into power, she would have immediately struck down the last two protections – the Helms Amendment in place since 1973, which guarded against funding abortion through foreign assistance funds, and the Hyde Amendment in place since 1976 to guard against the financing of abortions through federal Medicaid funding, which would have made every voting American taxpayer complicit in the blood of the innocent.
Australian law permits me to watch pornography but I choose not to, which makes that law irrelevant for my life. Australian law might decriminalize abortion but it too is irrelevant, because we adhere to a higher law which supersedes and will eventually judge all the laws of the world.
There is a Judge and He will judge what we do. God will raise us from the dead to judge us and He is likely to do so by our own standards. In other words if we abort another, and we’ve taken a hard stance in favour of that, He will do the same to us. Jesus demonstrated this when he told the Pharisees that those in their midst, other Pharisees, will judge them on that day. It will be a terrifying event because of the friends we know, but all of our ‘uniting’, our numbers, our democracy, our picketing, personal freedoms and herd instinct will not save us from the wrath of the Almighty, maker of galaxies.
What’s the definition of evil? When we do not set our hearts on seeking the Lord. (2 Chronicles 12:14).
There is good news. Whatever we’ve done, we can repent of before Him. We can say sorry and commit to His goodness, as long as it is during this Age of Grace. There is still time. He has promised to help us, to set our hearts on renovation and reform, to turn it from stone to flesh.
“Who are you?” is the most important question anyone can ask themselves, and if the answer is “I am a child of God”, then know that the repercussions are so far-reaching, of such great and magnificent value, so life-inducing that we’d not only be astonished at what it would bring into our lives, but how far we’d be able to go beyond ourselves. But even though we’ve stumbled upon the most important question we might ask ourselves, it is what God asks of us that’s even more critical, if not beautiful.
There is a Hebrew word “Shuv” which means “return”. But “Shuv” also means “repent”. Return and repent is the same word in Hebrew. The Lord desires nothing more than your return and repentance. And so… to use the words of Rabbi Johnathan Cahn… this is what God asks of you…
“I have known you from the beginning, from before you took your first step, before you breathed your first breath, before you were even conceived. I have seen all your tears and have known all your sorrows and wounds and pains, all your longing and hopes, all your fears, you dreams and heartbreaks, your burdens and weariness, your times of asking Me why, your cries of loneliness and emptiness, your times of separation, your mourning for what was lost, your weaknesses and failings, your wandering, your sins and shame…
And I have still loved you with an everlasting love…
And now I call you to leave the darkness and all that is passed and all that I never willed and purposed for your life… that the days of your separation would come to an end. It is time time now to return. It is time to come home… to enter the inheritance of blessing you never knew you were born to enter. It is time for your Jubilee.
Come to Me. And I will not turn you away but will receive you. And I will wipe away all your tears. I will forgive you all your sins. I will heal all your wounds. And I will turn all your sorrows into joy. And you will forget your days of darkness and wandering, the days of your separation. And I will make all things new.
And I will bring you into a land where the crippled walk, where deserts bloom, where the blind see, where the defiled become pure, and where that which was lost is found again. I will bring you to a place you have never known and yet have always longed to be, to your Promised Land. And I will never leave you. And you will again know what it is to be lost. For in that day, you will have come home. You will be Mine, and I will be yours… forever.”
Will you return?
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