Till I bleed…
The line goes like this: “Your love is greater and big enough to bring all the healing our world needs. Our heart is breaking from all the suffering. Though it may cost me ’till I bleed, Lord, use me!” Charles Billingsley recorded that song on his latest album and, along with the words from Pastor Jonathan’s sermon last week on Courage, those words have been resonating around my mind since I went to bed last night. Am I really willing to pray that, “Lord, use me, even though it may cause me to bleed?” What does it mean to really stand up courageously for what I believe is RIGHT? It seems courage is an even harder character trait to take on today that ever before, because there are so few people willing to be courageous! Like Pastor Jonathan said, “Courage is always the opposite of compromise.”
Lord, would You help me to stand up for what I know is right. Our world really is breaking from all the suffering. I want You to use me, even if it does cause me to bleed! Give me courage to stand….
The Value of Life
I am currently taking a Creation Studies class as I work to finish my degree, and this week were beginning our discussions on the worldviews that play into this debate and we were discussing the value of life. The following is something I shared with the class:
Its very interesting that “original sin” began in the Garden through the subtle lies and deceptions of Satan and down through the ages, the attacks come in the form of lies still. Evolutionary thought processes still whisper subtle deceptions in our ears, telling us God’s way really isn’t the best way. Some of this has hit home for me recently as my wife and I prepare for the soon coming birth of our second son. Early on in our pregnancy, the doctor’s thought our little one might have Down Syndrome. Evolutionary mindsets would tell us that that life is not fit enough to survive and that we would be better off aborting and trying again. Now, thankfully by God’s healing might, our child seems to be healthy now and shows no more signs of having any birth defects. Either way, my wife and I chose together to believe God knows what He’s doing regardless and would never even consider anything other than loving and caring for this little life as long as God chooses to bless us. It strikes me that, at the very core of issues such as Eugenics that its the very brash and false assumption that we know better than God, that God somehow managed to make a mistake and its up to us to try to fix it. God doesn’t make mistakes, and God doesn’t make junk. Though often the actions He chooses to make leave us baffled, bewildered and confused, sometimes reeling in pain and wrenching heartache, it really all does boil down to a faith issue. No matter what, do I believe He is right and just? Who am I, that I could dare stand up to the God of the Ages and claim to know better than Him! Truly, life has infinite more value than we could ever hope to express…
