August 31

There is much debate today about the concept we innocently term, “a woman’s right to choose.” Those innocuous words veil an evil of enormous magnitude, for in more direct language they declare that a woman has a right to abort her unborn child.

This is in direct opposition to God’s position in the matter, for He has stated in Exodus 21:22, 23 that if harm comes to an unborn child through strife, the perpetrator is to be punished. God does not take lightly the loss of a gestating infant. He sees the little one as a living human being.

Just as the smallest crumb of bread is still bread, so the tiniest child in its mother’s womb is still a life for whom Christ died. If we desire blessings from God, we must view life as He sees it. We cannot harm His little ones. To do so is to relegate ourselves to punishment. In Matthew 18:6 Jesus said that it would be better for a man to have a millstone hung around his neck and drowned than to harm a child.

In Deuteronomy 30:19 it says, “I have set before you life and death—blessing and cursing—therefore, choose life.” We have it within our power to choose one extreme or the other for time and for eternity. Will we follow the Lord’s will or our own? Will we defend life from pre-cradle to the grave or count some lives to be of little consequence? If we count the Bible as truly the unchanging Word of the Living God, we will be staunch advocates of life.