Don’t Sacrifice The Unborn To The Idol of Self-Gratification
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘(20) “And you took your sons and daughters whom you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to the idols. Was your prostitution not enough? (21) You slaughtered My children and sacrificed them to the idols. (22) In all your detestable practices and your prostitution you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, kicking about in your blood. (23a) Woe! Woe to you!”, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ (Ezekiel 16:20-23a)
God finds child sacrifice (in today’s terms, abortion) repulsive; in the Old Testament this is repeated, by God Himself, over and over again. Leviticus 18:21, Deuteronomy 12:31, and Jeremiah 7:31 all state that God in His own Words, finds child sacrifice repugnant, profane, and abominable. In the New Testament, Jesus (God Manifested) repeats this in Luke 17:1-2, that states a person causing a child harm or to perform a sinful act will be dealt with severely. If God is so clear about this being so detestable, why do people fail to listen?
The answer is quite simple, they do not see God clearly so they do not follow Him or His precepts clearly. The people have been clouded by the lies that govern their feelings, that they bear no personal responsibility over their actions, and the consequences of those actions. People have separated the reality and the facts of life with their feelings of self; the child is no longer a human being (the reality) but it their secular and evil viewpoint, the unborn child is now a form of cancerous tissue that needs to be removed and destroyed (the feeling), the cancer being one of responsibility – the responsibility to raise the child – that it is better to sacrifice the child than to sacrifice the time and effort toward being a parent. God compares these actions of feeling to the reality of their own birth in Ezekiel 16:22, they forgot that their mother and father did not fall for the lie and sacrifice them.
How is abortion like prostitution, as the Lord has proclaimed? The people forego the Righteousness of Christ to prostitute themselves for receiving the feelings of immediate self-gratification in sin. They in turn pay a heavier price; they have turned their back on God, and in the false pursuit of happiness toward satisfying their feelings, they end up sacrificing their joy with the Lord and, if never accepting Christ, sacrifice an eternity of peace with Him for an eternity of literal Hell without Him.
Many on both sides of the abortion issue (pro-life versus pro-choice) believe it is a legal issue. Regardless of the law and regardless of the state where one resides, the issue is not a legal one but a moral one. Does one follow and obey God’s Word and His Truth, or does one ignore Him and follow their own ‘truth’? However, if those who have practiced abortion in the past do have hope. If they repent, acknowledge their past sin, and accept Jesus as their Lord – they will gain His Grace and gain Salvation. As He forgives, so should we. There is always hope for those who still draw breath!
