Our society today has some very distorted views of what constitutes that which is good, right and valuable! It appears that one’s personal rights and priorities are considered of utmost importance when it comes to making, literally, life and death decisions. The self-absorbed “right” to choose is tragically even more paramount than the right to life. Regrettably, this perverted attitude imitates the barbarous sentiment of James Bond to, Live and Let Die! Certainly, as those who have been created by God, we should be both stirred and shaken!
It is simply incomprehensible and paradoxical to think that animals and trees have greater value and significance to many more and are more stringently and passionately protected than the life of an unborn baby. Today, protecting nature takes precedence over protecting and cherishing human nature. The things of the world are worshipped more than the One who created the world and the one’s for whom the world was first created. How terribly far mankind has fallen from its Judeo-Christian roots and values.
The Apostle Paul saw a similar perversion occurring during his day as well. He wrote. “Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, the worship idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles…They traded the truth for a lie…So they worshipped and served the things God created instead of the Creator.” Romans 1:22-23, 25
God Almighty loves and cherishes each of us who have been created “in HIS image” (Genesis 1:27) and therefore possess intrinsic worth. All human life, both in the world and in vitro, is deemed to have infinite value. How can we do anything less than to reciprocate that same sentiment? King David rightly understood this truth. He declared, “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together…Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalms 139:13-16 NIV
When it comes to our human rights, let’s not forget God’s rights over humans as both his creation and re-creation. The Apostle Paul stated thus truth emphatically. “You should know that your body is a temple for the Holy Spirit that you received from God and that lives in you. You don’t own yourselves. God paid a very high price to make you his. So honor God with your body.” 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 ERV As God’s creation and recipient of his redemption, we longer have a “right” to do with our bodies what we want, God is the one who now possesses that right. And He chooses the right of life, for us to live and let live (Exodus 20:13). God has made it abundantly clear that to destroy human life is WRONG! It is not a right we can assume to possess. No one has the prerogative or the “right to choose” to take the life of another, even the life of the yet unborn. We must all return to the understanding that as God’s chosen stewards of the earth (Genesis 1:28), we have both the responsibility and right to cherish and protect the life he has created. Why? Because God, and God alone, has the right to choose because he is the giver and designer of life. And God chooses life!
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