Has your heart been broken this week? Have you fallen on your face before God pleading for forgiveness of our country? Do you remind yourself that there are things that our government condones and God abhors?
How easily we shrug and say "I can't believe how many babies have been murdered in this country!" and then go on to our normal lives without falling on our knees in grief. So soon we forget. So soon.
Well, that's where I've been--forgetting, or ignoring, or too preoccupied with my own concerns to look and really see what is happening. Too self-absorbed to grieve for the lost little ones--all created by God and yet snatched out of His hands before they could even see the sunlight on their perfectly formed faces.
How thankful I am that I went to a Pro-Life Teen seminar this past week. My eyes were opened again--my heart broken again. I wanted to squeeze my eyes shut when the pictures of torn babies were shown on the screen--to try to block out the unimaginable cruelty of how they were ripped out of their mothers bodies. I didn't want to see it--Oh God! how I don't want to know that anyone purposefully, out of ignorance or denial could allow this to happen. Oh God! forgive them--so many don't understand what they are doing. Evil, evil ememy of our souls who deludes, persuades and closes the eyes to this heinous act.
Why are more people not outraged? Why wasn't I? Lord forgive me. Remind me oh God to look and see, to allow my heart to be broken. Remind me God and break my heart that I will stand up in righteous indignation to protect those you love.
Psalm 71:4-6 (English Standard Version)
4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
5For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O LORD, from my youth.
6Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother’s womb.
My praise is continually of you.
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