Thinkaloud | no time to kill

No time to kill

Human beings have not been given the ability to create life; that power the Creator has reserved for Himself, though He has passed on to men and women the capability of bringing children into the world. When a man and a woman come together in marriage to have a child, God blesses their union. The new life that is started in the mother’s womb does not belong to the mother or the father, its life belongs to God, the creator of life.

We also know that death is, so to speak, a part of life. Every minute countless numbers of people die and are ushered into the presence of God. Even though death is called “the last enemy” by Paul (1 Corinthians 15: 26), it is the means that God uses to bring our earthly life to a conclusion.

I am convinced, though, that not all deaths happen according to God’s timetable. There are many premature deaths, such as when people are murdered, killed in car accidents, blown up by terrorist bombs or die by their own hand.

But no death is as terrible as abortion, which is the deliberate killing of a new human life that God has allowed to grow inside a mother. Our Heavenly Father’s caring love for humans does not start when a baby is born, but when the new life first begins. God loves the unborn as much as those who are born.

How many millions of tiny lives who tried in vain to escape the abortionist’s suction tube or the salt solution have been thrust into eternity, to be welcomed by a loving Father who knows that His plans for their lives will never to come to fruition on earth? How many infant cries of joy and gurgles of laughter have blessed no ears or brought smiles to faces as the “fetus” was scraped from the unwilling womb?

Abortion as a means of birth control is wrong. Abortion on demand is wrong. Private and government-funded abortion clinics are wrong. While we accept that the life of the mother must take precedence over the life of the unborn child, we know that such decisions are rare. There is enough love and money in the world to care for every child.

But for every abortion there is a heartbroken and grieving mother, though the deep wound caused by the irreparable loss is often well hidden. And when the pain turns to anger, to despair and to enormous grief, our loving and understanding Heavenly Father – our Abba - offers forgiveness, healing and restoration. I believe that, by God’s grace, in Heaven there will be mother and child reunions that were not possible in this life.

Writer: Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell Ryan is a former Editor in Chief in Canada and the UK. In retirement he is a copy editor of theRubicon and the author of two series on theRubicon - Resurrected Writers and Thinkaloud.

Tags: abortion, death, human life

1 Comment to Thinkaloud | no time to kill

1. Thanks for this great article. Readers might be interested in this group, which is trying to get the word out to college students that there is an alternative to the pro-death culture, and that abortion isn’t empowerment. http://www.feministsforlife.org/
Catherine W. on January 12th, 2009

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