To be fully HUMAN — A Daily Reflection

 

   For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  For it is written:
   "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
      the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate."

   Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?  For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.  Jews demand miraculous signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.  For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.

 

I met a doctor once who was almost militant in his pro-choice stand.  At the same time, this very doctor was working in research to develop ways to help defective babies while still in the womb so that they might be able to live to term.  I can still remember his excitement when he described the first successful surgery that had implanted a pacemaker in a fetus to allow the baby to live until term so a more effective surgery could be done after the child was born.  How hard it was to understand how this man could work so hard to save the pre-born and yet advocate the killing of these same children!

 

Do you find the same kind of contradictory attitude in yourself or in those around you?  Do you advocate the "rights" of the mother, but deny the rights of the child within her womb?  Do you find people supporting research to prevent birth defects or to treat disease and deformity in the newborn, and yet also support the cause of the murder of innocent children?  Nowhere in scripture do we find the term for fetus or embryo.  Always, no matter when a child is referred to in the womb, it is called a child… a person… a human being… full of the life that God has given him or her.

 

Psalm 139:13 says, "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb."  Jeremiah 1:5 says, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart."  And in Luke 1:44, we learn that even in the womb, a baby has intelligence and awareness, because John the Baptist, while still in his mother’s womb, recognized Jesus who was in the womb of Mary.

 

Can anything be more plain?  The life that is in the womb of every pregnant woman is precious… and alive… and will - if not murdered first - become a precious and valuable human being… a person… a life.  In that, there is no contradiction.

 

Pray that God will give you full awareness of the preciousness of life so that you will not contradict either yourself or His word.