Prevention Park Health Center, the largest abortion facility in the Western hemisphere, is closing its doors.
At its busiest, the massive Planned Parenthood in Houston killed 10,000 babies per year, including babies that were up to 24 weeks in pregnancy. At least 2 dozen Planned Parenthood facilities around the country are also closing, including 3 others in the Houston area.
This is a momentous moment.
Reading the news stories about it, makes me feel a little bit like a worn out old abolitionist who just heard that Lincoln finally signed the Emancipation Proclamation. I can’t fully celebrate while we in the midst of the terrible war that this fight to end this evil has brought upon our country.
The fight to end slavery plunged America into a bloody civil war that took more American lives than all the other wars this country has fought combined. It almost destroyed “government of the people, by the people and for the people.”
Pro life people today are in a similar situation to the one in which abolitionists found themselves on the day Lincoln issued the Proclamation. The old order of abortion on demand has passed. But now we are faced with the wreckage of what we did to end it.
Will the things we did, the horrible people and organizations we aligned ourselves with in order to save the unborn, end up destroying America itself? Will government of the people, by the people, and for the people perish from this earth because of what we have done?
We can’t let that happen.
As long as we are in this life, we will be at war with the darkness. God may give us resting places for a time, but they are always short-lived moments before the battle is joined again.
Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword, Jesus told us.
Following Christ will always — always — put you at odds with the world.
Jesus didn’t come to pat the world on the head and congratulate us for our perfect righteousness. He came precisely because no matter how hard we try, we will always fall short of the glory of God. He came because we are fallen creatures who live in a fallen world where a very real and active satan is always at work and no matter what good we try to do, there will always be a need for us to clean up our own messes when we finish doing it.
Jesus didn’t come to reward us for our good deeds. He came to save us from ourselves. He came to lead us into a Kingdom where our Father’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven. That’s a tall order, and we will always fall short of it.
Abortion is gone.
The work in front of us now is to save this country from what we did to it in the fight to end abortion. We put down one monster and raised up others that may be even more deadly than the first. We made deals with the devil to end abortion and now the devil’s payment is coming due.
That is life in this fallen world. It is how it has always been, how it will always be until Christ comes again. Our call is to put our hands to plow and do the work that is in front of us. That is what it means to follow Him.
Note: The Scripture I quoted is Matthew 10:34. “… Kingdom where our Father’s will is done on earth as it is in heaven, is a paraphrase of a line in the Our Father, or as it is also called, the Lord’s Prayer.
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