By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Mon, 25 May 2009 21:10:53 +0000

An awesome devotion, John — thank you! Spiritual ‘eyes’ come from loving God and His Word, and desiring Truth. As we hunger for it, He is faithful to ‘feed’ us! He promises wisdom to all who ask, and wisdom is spiritual understanding, or spiritual ‘eyes.’ As He knows our hearts, when we seek His heart with genuine longing, He grants us new ‘lenses’ to see as He sees! This may rattle some cages, but abortion is an excample of ‘something not being what it appears to be.’ It is carefully disquised as a woman’s right to choose, and a ‘decision’ between a woman and her doctor. This would be true if there wasn’t a third party involved. That third party is a human being in it’s youngest stage of development, fully dependent upon the loving, protective care of it’s mother, and the legal protection of it’s constitutional rights. Would one sanction the voluntary killing of toddlers or teenagers, saying that it’s the parent’s right to choose? How can a 26-week-old fetus be a baby when the mother goes into premature labor and delivers it, but not a baby when an unmarried woman decides that it’s not convenient to be a parent? Does ‘unplanned’ mean expendable? Does being ‘planned’ assign more worth to a baby? From God’s perspective, ALL pregnancies are planned. Or, is He not able to stop conception at will? If we, as Christians, truly believe that God is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent, then why would He not be able to prevent conception, when He is the Creator of our bodies? It all boils down to what we believe about God. The Bible tells us that He knows us in the ‘secret place,’ that He is there when we are ‘knit together in our mother’s womb’, that we are ALL (not just those who are ‘planned’) created in His image. This is a perfect example of God’s gift of ‘spiritual eyes,’ for He helps us to ‘see’ the truth about abortion, and prompts an outcry for mercy on the weakest members of our society!

By: kanj

kanj — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:43:26 +0000

John, thank you for the devotional. I speak only for me and no one else; I believe what I believe and that is the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. I believe in the Holy Living Bible-God’s Word.
And no ‘one’ has the ability to change my heart’s faith and truth but myself. I have that choice as God gives us all choice.
As far as experiences when things were not what they appeared to be–that was my life before I knew Christ Jesus as my Savior.

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