Open your mouth for the speechless, In the cause of all who are appointed to do die.
As I sit here watching global Christian news feeds stream in front of me all day long, frankly, at times, it is hard not to get a little depressed.
I obviously select those news stories that fit my own particular theology and doctrinal stance.
One of the biggest news issues I never blog about, is the global persecution of Christians, because frankly there is so much it and it is so disturbing. If I started reporting on this, I would never be able to report on anything else and that’s why I am content to let dedicated websites like Persecution.org tackle this, as in truth, it needs dedicated websites to cope with the sheer depressing volume.
I do tackle some of the ‘persecution’ issues in the UK and have noted some criticisms on the Internet, as some folk don’t consider the negative Christian experiences in the west as ‘true’ persecution. I think from my own perspective I would argue that we are witnessing a ‘creeping’ towards ‘true’ persecution in the west, which is being powered via the law courts, legislative powers and liberal European governments.
All I see all day long, is the global push for government funded and politically sanctioned abortion en-masse, or the global acceptance for homosexual ‘marriages’ or the ‘right’ to commit suicide etc. These selfsame issues are ripping the established ‘visible’ church in two and there is no doubt in my mind that we are seeing a polarisation within the global visible church, to the point whereby we are witnessing schisms and new partnerships (old in some cases) being formed and re-formed.
Some say this is the Devil dividing the church, others that God is separating the ‘wheat’ from the ‘chaff’. I will not state about how I feel personally, but it is probably not too hard to detect if you look carefully through my Christian news selections.
So…I became a little ‘down’ tonight and went for an aimless drive and on the dashboard of the car was a bible and I came to this verse.
Proverbs 31:8 + 9
Open you mouth for the speechless,
In the cause of all who are appointed to die.
Open your mouth, judge righteousness,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy.
When I read that, I had a sense of peace, because I realised that it is right to stand up and speak (blog) for the cause of those appointed to die and who are speechless and that to me is the millions upon millions of aborted humans, sacrificed to the modern god of convenience.
I didn’t even bother earlier to put the recent abortion figures from China, which officially stands at 13m a year (and this is only the reported, official cases – and many are ‘enforced’). I have also stopped blogging about President Obama and his massive abortion expansion plans and the political and physical attacks on pro-lifers across the globe along with the political legislative maneuvering to enforce abortion as a ‘human right’ (Irony) in predominantly Catholic countries. I stopped because I was sick of it and had become depressed by reading it all and just had that sense that no-one really cared anyway.
That scripture from Proverbs, reminded me that God cares and so I care also…forgive me Lord…evil runs rampant when good men say/do nothing.
If you want the ‘right’ to end your own life then so be it, but you have no right to end the life of others…those that haven’t even been given a shot at life. Women’s emancipation I am told….what about all of the little baby girls who never got the chance to become a woman and make a choice?
I stand with the church that will not proclaim, that which is wicked, as a good thing…whatever church that may be….I stand with you in the Lord.
Amen
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