July 30: TOTALLY PRO-LIFE

Have you been watching these “early” presidential debates? Well, they are not so much debates as times to make declarations of positions. As hairs are split and positions defined, the dancing begins. None want to make a statement that might come back later to haunt them. For instance, there seems to be several definitions of “pro-life”.
From the Christian Bible there is only one approach: life is a unique gift from God and is to be valued from the “womb to the tomb” and not just from the “womb to the delivery room”. Jesus summed up his position in John 10:10, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full”.
Admittedly, this is not a political position but a spiritual position. Jesus was not a Democrat, Republican or Independent. He did not start a political party nor did he teach his followers to do so.
He pointed out in the first half of verse 10 that life has many death-dealing enemies. Among them are hunger, starvation, AIDS, capital punishment, war, air-pollution, abortion, child-abuse, euthanasia, global warming and murder.
The dramatic statement of Genesis 2:7 forever places Christians on the side of protecting all human life: “the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” Whether you are a fundamentalist or a liberal, this is a stirring statement of how God feels about His creation. We don’t have the luxury of ‘picking and choosing” the situation where we think life is worthy of our support.
The Apostle Peter affirmed: “His Divine power has given us everything we need for life.” (2 Peter 1:3 NIV) It is up to us to use all of the knowledge and material we have to champion life all of the time. We are co-workers with God on this project.

“O Source of all life, may we begin to be better stewards of human life
than we have in the past. Help us to honor Jesus, who gave up His life. Amen”