LIFE

Today, we went to the main medical surgical abortion clinic in Kansas City to stage a LIFE Siege. (Bound4Life.org) To my shame, I've never engaged in abortion protest. In fact, I've always felt a little angry at the church, because unless we put our money where our mouth is, and work to create a culture of adoption within our own ranks and take these babies, I felt it was hypocritical. Well...there is some truth to that, but it doesn't take away the fact that abortion is legalized murder, that we...read WE...the church have sanctioned. How? By our apathy.
In a LIFE Siege, you are silent. Your there only to identify with the voiceless, and pray. You do not interfere with people going in or coming out. There should never be judgment of people, but I have seen that in some misguided demonstrations.
So I put my LIFE tape on my mouth and began to pray. After praying through the things I could think of to pray for, I began to ask God what He wanted me to know. I'm going to simplify as much as possible because this will probably take some time for me to process.
I began to feel the weight of responsibility for the building I was looking at. How did it happen that a beautiful, modern medical center was built to promote and facilitate the murder of the "least of these" in any society?
I began remembering the word in Ezekial how the Priests were always to define the Holy and profane for the people. And how God told Ezekial to dig through the wall and examine what the Priests were doing....worshipping other Gods. Oh, we have our sanctuary's...our rituals....our Christian communities, but do we have truth or tradition? Do we have men's ideas of what is right or do we have the Man Christ Jesus?
Bickle once preached, that if your faith isn't disrupting your life, you don't have faith.
It's inconvenient, uncomfortable, and tiring to stand in one place and pray silently for an hour or two. It's even more inconvenient, expensive, and messy to take one of those babies and create an alternative for that mother.
I was struck that we have the understanding that abortion is one of the greatest injustices, yet we don't have the understanding that it is our injustice against God that created it.
The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.....I became aware of the property in front of me that I wasn't allowed to touch, was God's, and therefore Holy Ground. And through the apathy of those who knew better, but didn't want to be inconvenienced, we participated in building that monstrous place that now hid dismembered body's of babies, thrown away, incinerated, like that removed the evidence. The blood will cry out from the ground.
I felt the weight of the sin and responsibility, and cried out to God for forgiveness. I became aware, of the injustice, that I was standing outside praying, while there were women inside having abortions, yet it was I who held the greater moral failure. I was as culpable, yet I didn't get what I deserved. Such is the grace of God, and why we pray for not only life for the unborn, but LIFE for the mother....Jesus...the Way, the Truth, and the LIFE. I didn't get what I deserved....that is my prayer for this world. Come to Jesus, and allow Him to remove the guilt, the stain, of what we have become. He delights to do this...He's not waiting in anger to judge, no....He died with arms wide open, and heart exposed.
I repent and stand in the gap of what He created us to be, and what we have become. Jesus, have mercy and forgive my sin and the sins of my nation. God end abortion and send revival to America. Amen