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Monday, June 25, 2018
Does anyone care about God's opinion?
We all have defining moments in our lives. Usually they are moments marked by the birth of a child or sadly by the death of a loved one….maybe a new job, a move to a new state and so much more.
One of my most defining moments can be said in two words “Kunta Kinte.” For some of you that will immediately bring to mind an image of a young LeVar Burton in the tv mini series Roots and for others you may not be familiar with that TV show, but for me it was and will forever be heavily marked on my heart and in my mind.
I loved learning about history in 4th and 5th grade. I think because history is truly people’s stories in life’s journey and how our stories impact people, nations and the world, that history has always captivated my attention as at a young age, even though not a Christian, the value of each soul was impressed upon my heart by God in a way that people’s stories and people’s pain impacted me in a very profound way.
I had learned about slavery, of course, as any grade school student does as I studied our American history and while it impacted me, the reality of it did not hit me until I found myself watching a new TV series that would hit the air waves in 1977 while I was still in grade school. That was Roots. Kunta Kinte’s life and the lives of both the slaves and the slave owners would forever impact my life. To this day the images that I tried to erase are still clearly marked on my heart and mind.
Even as a young girl, I sat there in disbelief that any human being could justify in any way treating ANY other human being as if they were/are not human. It made no sense to me. TRULY MADE NO SENSE TO ME. I mean of course logically I had learned the sick rationale that was used to enslave people but I could not wrap my mind around how any human being could go along with something so clearly evil beyond words. I would wrestle and wrestle how anyone could ever not only do this but allow this and allow this on a level of actual legislation supporting this in our nation and in our history.
Fast forward to my college years….Jesus reached down and saved my undeserving soul. While I saw Him merely as fire insurance in that moment so to speak initially and did not really start following Him and engaging in a vibrant relationship with my Savior until my mid twenties, instantly I knew that being pro choice, which I had been in college, was wrong and I immediately said I would never vote for a Democrat again and would always support Republicans with my vote as I knew that Republicans by in large voted pro life. Outside of voting though I did very little to show any evidence that I was pro life. I was in word but not in deed which truly leaves one to question if I was really pro life at all as my lip service apart from any real actions hardly qualified me to call myself pro life.
It was not until my husband and I found ourselves facing three top doctors at a top hospital in IL that my eyes were truly opened to the reality of abortion in America and how much it was and is a part of the very fabric of our nation. I remember clear as day as if just yesterday that utter feeling of horror and shock that people in medicine not only suggest, that is bad enough, but insist on parents killing their child and not only killing their child but the reasoning being because the child is sick. Since when did/does being sick become a crime and become something worthy of being killed over???? Of course, in utter shock that this would even be suggested we kindly argued with and took a STRONG, BOLD yet kind stand against this and today we have a beautiful, KIND beyond measure 20 year old daughter that lights up every room she enters and impacts lives with her kindness.
But it would not stop there the education on abortion God was revealing to me. I was about to get an even bigger and most unexpected education yet again within a community I had always viewed as truly safe and truly pro life as I had once viewed the medical community.
I started to learn that EVEN IN the pro life community there were factions of people that did not really believe in PRO LIFE at all as they would advocate for or succumb to fighting for some lives but not ALL lives. This, just like with the utter shock of those in the medical community seeing abortion as a very real “solution” and “option,” was just as shocking to me that there were people within pro life life that held the same stance. I was in utter shock! And what is this stance within the pro life community where some who profess to fight for life would relegate some lives to less valuable than others…..THE EXCEPTIONS……
Just like with Roots, as a young girl, as I sat in front of the TV screen in utter shock and disbelief with tears running down my face uncontrollably, I would sit before God with tears running down my face asking how could this be. I fully understand the deception of someone who does not follow Jesus buying into the lie of abortion as a solution, as that was once me before I encountered Jesus. BUT …..to find out that professing believers, professing followers of Jesus Christ, professing pro life people would say that abortion is ok in any circumstance or being willing to go along with it for some so that others could live was nothing short of knock me on my bottom shocking to me.
It would forever take me back to slavery in our history. Professing believers not only supported slavery and had slaves but would go along with legislation to support that and legislation that dehumanized an entire people group. Professing believers would justify slavery because of the economic benefit to so many which well outweighed the cost to the human lives of the slaves….sound familiar…….benefiting the many even though at great cost to the few????? Abortion…..EXCEPTIONS…….
As a believer, there will NEVER EVER, let me repeat this in kindness and love but so boldly, that there will never be a time that SIN IS THE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING THAT AILS MAN. The sin of slavery may have seemed like a solution to the South’s economic woes and a way for great prosperity for many but in God’s economy is SIN EVER THE SOLUTION??? Praise God enough people were willing to be hated, put their lives on the line and accept no compromises and fight for the complete end to slavery. It was a defining moment in our history……Today is no different.
Sin is still never the solution even though from a human standpoint it can be rationalized and not even called sin…..but as with slavery….as with the compromise of some states being free and others slave states-that would never be God’s way to say, “Well at least some states are free even if some still allow slavery.” NO! God never condones sin…because SIN HURTS ALL INVOLVED…….God does not compromise and neither should we……..Pro life legislation with exceptions is sin before a holy God….it is no different then when our nation made compromises allowing for some free states….That may have seemed generous and like a win win but when an entire people group was still dehumanized and enslaved in the slave states that compromise was of man and never of God.
May the pro life community and may pro life legislators who know Jesus as Lord and Savior filter exceptions in pro life legislation through the lens of Jesus the same way that the abolitionists who would tolerate no compromises filtered their stand and their fight through the lens of Jesus. We can do what seems right to man and compromise and for a moment in time, it may appear to be the loving thing, but God will never allow anything HE does not call love to be called love and when HE calls ALL life valuable then our job is not to make excuses, not to compromise, not to make exceptions but to respond to HIS Heart and do the same by calling all life valuable as well….with no exceptions. We must not settle for exceptions…the same way those that truly took a stand against slavery would not settle for at least some states being free states, we must not settle for at least some babies being saved while others die…….
Suzanne Guy
Save the 1 speaker and blogger
Monday, January 8, 2018
Everyone in One Voice Told My Parents to Abort, by Stephen Johnson
My
name is Stephen Johnson. I was born in India, but raised up in Kuwait which is
in the Middle East. I’m married to a beautiful bride named Rinku Stephen. We
both serve the Lord around the world where ever the Lord leads us. I want
to share my testimony of how the Lord performed a miracle in my life and made me into the person I am today.
I got the privilege to be born into a
Christian family. I’m fifth generation Christian. I have two siblings -- both
older than me. My sister is the oldest and is a doctor who settled in Canada, while my older brother is a pilot and an engineer who has settled in
Australia. I completed my Audio Engineering degree.
My mom
used to take birth control pills . . . , and after awhile, she had a movement in her abdomen. It continued to occur as the months passed. She went to three doctors and they
said nothing was happening of concern. Later, she saw a different doctor and he
said that my mom was pregnant. A few months later, she went to another
doctor and he said that my mom was pregnant -- with me.
That is when my parents
came to know of my existence, and the doctors did not have very pleasant news to tell my
parents. They said that the position of the baby was upside down and was in an
abnormal stage. After hearing this news, my parents did not know how to process
this. They were shattered.
They shared the report the doctors had told
them to their family, church, and relatives, but my parents did not get a good
response from them either. Everyone in one voice told them to abort the baby because
they already had one girl child and a boy, so they said, "Why do you want the
third child?" So my parents were not sure what to do next and were in a terrific
stage of making a major decision in their lives.
One day ,while my parents were
in the room, they said that God came into their room and told them “Do not kill the child
because I’m going to send him to the nations to proclaim the good news.” They
both heard the voice of God and that day they made the decision that whatever
happens or whoever talks negative about this matter, they are not going to be concerned about it, and they dedicated me for ministry even before I was born.
Months passed by. They kept hearing this terrible news. Whenever my parents would go to see the doctors, they would say that the baby was
abnormal, and "even if he comes out, he would not have legs or arms," or that "the
baby will have missing parts in his body" and also that he will be blind.
Whatever the doctors could say to try to get them to abort, they said to my parents. Of course, they were upset
with the news, but they knew that their God was able to do some miracle, so they
believed and trusted God.
Finally,
my mom gave birth to me, and I was born perfectly healthy, as a normal baby. Whatever the
doctors said I would be, God turned it completely opposite and blessed my life. I had perfect vision, I had both my legs and my arms. I was a normal baby boy at birth.
However, as
months passed by, my parents noticed that I was quiet and that I was not interacting
Now when everybody came to know about this
matter, they started to mock my parents again, saying: “You should have
killed the baby. Now you suffer watching him not speak.” These were the words
spoken to my parents, and again my parents were reminded of the voice of the
Lord and they trusted that. So they started fasting and praying for me.
One
night, there was a mega-crusade happening in Kuwait, and my parents left all
the kids home and went to the crusade. Before the meeting ended, the
pastor asked the crowd if there was anyone who wanted to heal. Then he said
to raise up the hands and declare by faith the healing power of the Lord. So by
faith, my parents raised their hands and prayed for me. In that meeting, many
got healed and delivered. My parents were so happy because they thought I was
healed. They came back home with a happy face, but soon after they started
talking to me their faces were saddened because I was still the same. God did not
heal me that day. They knelt down, prayed together and confessed.
The
very next day, after they came back from work, they started to hear a voice
that they had never heard before, so they checked on my siblings first, but
they were just playing with their toys. Then my parents were searching for me and what
I was doing -- I was hiding behind a door and was singing a Christian song!! That’s when they knew that God had touched my mouth and healed me. God healed
me when I was four and a half years old. From then till now, He never allowed me
to stumble. I have been talking nonstop.
God
could have healed me when I was born, but he did not because He wanted my
parents to have faith and obedience in Him so they could see with their own
eyes that when they put their whole trust in Him, He will take care of
everything.
BIO: Stephen Johnson is a husband, sharing the gospel globally, and a pro-life blogger for Save The 1. Stephen and his wife Rinku are missionaires to Africa and North India. Stephen can be contacted or followed on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
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