Stanek Sunday Word: “Kings set themselves against the Lord; He laughs”
Staring out into the Atlantic Ocean earlier today, I cleared my mind out a bit and mulled over the vast expanse of water in front of me. “What does it mean?” – and then it hit me. The ocean is huge. No man, not even the mightiest army could stand before it and prevail.
When I consider the strength of the abortion industry, I sometimes feel like we’re sailing into a headwind. The media loves them, our culture turns a blind eye to them – and Warren Buffett just gave them $1.2 billion.
But today as I looked out into the ocean I was reminded of just how weak man and his works are. As a ship stays afloat at the mercy of the treacherous sea, so the abortion industry is only able to continue its barbarity at the whim of the Creator. King David’s psalm came to mind:
“Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying, ‘Let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us.’ He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall hold them in derision.”
So take heart fellow abolitionists and culture warriors. The forces of evil are not as strong as they – or we – think they are.
~ Pro-lifer Andy Moore on Facebook, May 23; quote is Psalm 21-4, New King James Version
[Photo of Andy and son Levi (Jill’s eighth grandson… :)]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
I know and like Andy, and I don’t want to be rude, but I have to say that if “the abortion industry is only able to continue its barbarity at the whim of the Creator,” then that’s one of the best arguments against being a Christian I’ve ever heard. How can I possibly worship a god that could put a stop to this atrocity but decides not to, on a “whim”?
Because – whether we like it or not, man has free will.
Kelsey, I know what he is saying but I cringed too. Awful way to put it. It isn’t a “whim”. God sometimes lets people have what they want even when He knows it is bad for them (King Saul comes to mind. Not God’s man but the people insisted so God gave them what they wanted). The Bible says we reap what we sow (Galations 6:7) and we are definitely reaping the culture of death we have sown. In Exodus it says that God sometimes visits the sins of people for generations in their family. I think of all the immorality that has been sown in our country and the generations of sorrow that followed from fornication, abortion, etc…
God would cleanse us from all unrighteousness if only we’d ask but we, as a people, are too stubborn to turn from our vomit.
Of course God allows wickedness. The Bible tells us that explicitly and repeatedly. He uses it to test us and to create opportunities for His Will to be fulfilled. Joseph was falsely imprisoned after being sold by his brothers because God wanted him in the right place at the right time to manage Egypt through the famine. God created the plagues (including the death of the firstborn) to effect the release of the Israelites and destabilize the Pharaoh’s government. God allowed Adam and Eve to eat the fruit and Cain to murder Able for His own future purposes.
God gives us choices to test us. God also creates intolerable circumstances in order to set the stage for great things. Abortion fits both those options. It tests our will and moral compass and provides us the opportunity to defeat wickedness.
Look to Genesis 4:6-7
Because – whether we like it or not, man has free will.
By and large, what prolifers don’t like is that woman has free will.
It hit him that the ocean is huge – now?
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