Distracting Idols

“The Kingdom of God is not a matter of organic eating, education choices for your children, or how or where you have your babies, or even how many babies you have, but of righteousness, peace and joy…

I sat around tables and heard women sharing their horror stories about birth — discouraging one another. And I felt the Holy Spirit just ringing inside me saying, ‘No. Tell them what I did. Tell them what I can do. Tell them what I’m doing.’ But I couldn’t because I was scared. This comparison trap — this thing — oh man, this distracts us from (our) mission (love God and love your neighbor). Doesn’t it, ladies?”

 –Angie Tolpin paraphrasing Romans 14:17 in her lecture on Cultivating Unity Among Women.

 Such freeing truth to hear in this!

 I feel the same way when I hear people using scary stories (sometimes slanderous) as ammunition in an unholy war on birthing methods. This is idolatry. We are taking God-given liberties and making our unity with the body as blood offering to it. We need to repent of this sin and strive to love God and love our neighbors.

http://angietolpin.com/redeeming-division-cultivating-unity-among-women/