JUGGERNAUT OR FOIBLE

From My Perspective - - -

Generalization is a tool in expression that allows one to either overstate or underestimate what is or is not factual. Next week will be observed as National Right To Life Week. An example is this statement appearing on www.OneNewsNow.com - “Less than 10% believe abortion should be legal, unfettered…A nationwide survey commissioned by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops underscores the public view of abortion. The poll involved a cross-section of Americans - not just Catholics - and assistant director for policy and communications at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Deirdre McQuade, has part of the results. “Four out of five American adults - 82 percent - think abortion should be either illegal under all circumstances or with limited legality, and only nine percent said that abortion should be legal for any reason at any time during pregnancy, she explains.” The report also includes: “Three-fourths favor parents having a role in a minor's attempt to obtain an abortion, and nearly two-thirds support laws against partial-birth abortion.”

Chuck Colson shared some of his thoughts on the Right To Life Issue and commented in a recent Breakpoint editorial: “In the painting The Slaughter of the Innocents, baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens depicted the horror: a soldier dashing a child against a Roman column, another lancing a mother who tries to hide her babe. The painting also shows a woman weeping over the body of her dead infant. It's a scene from the Bible none of us likes imagining. Matthew quoted Jeremiah to describe the atrocity: A voice is heard in Ramah... Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted... Those who heard Matthew's gospel…would have associated Ramah with the deportation of the Jews during the exile. In that vicinity, the Babylonians tore Israel's children away from their mother's arms and carried them off as slaves.” As barbaric as this sounds, much of what passes as a safe and sound medical procedure when Abortion is done in this nation, is similarly barbaric. Colson’s additional thoughts are: “And where did Evil strike? It attacked life in its most vulnerable form. The very first assault of Satan after the birth of Christ is against society's weakest members-infants. He attacked the least of these. Even today, the Enemy's mode of attack hasn't changed much. We're painfully aware of the slaughter of the unborn, and the devaluation of the elderly, the poor, the disabled, and the prisoner…we mustn't be deceived. There is a real battle with real casualties. We remember that we wage war not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. We shouldn't be surprised at setbacks and assaults upon us. Of course the Enemy won't go down without a fight. But remember, the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. So lay hold of it, and don't let go.

Consider these things with me - - - The secular press will brush aside such statements as being either biased or uninformed. That is part of the tension/dynamic of a juggernaut approach on the one hand (a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way) versus those who embrace a view and/or position that becomes nothing more than a foible: (a minor weakness or failing of character.)”…What should matter most to us is a Biblical imperative to be involved in the Cultural War that engages us as followers of Jesus Christ. Remember Proverbs 24:10-12, “ If you falter in times of trouble, how small is your strength! Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, But we knew nothing about this, does not He Who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not He Who guards your life know it? Will he not repay each person according to what he has done?” And, Psalm 139:7-16, “… For You created my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!” The bottom line for us is – and always will be – God’s Way or man’s way. These positions are an eternity apart!