Let”s fight for them like we would for us

This week I watched the fifth video depicting the barbarism that is taxpayer-funded abortion in America. My stomach churned as I watched a scene that belongs in a MA-rated horror movie: A full-grown human hand approaches a glass dish from the right side of the frame, tweezers positioned between the fingers where chopsticks would go. The tweezers pinch a pink fleshy limb, captured clearly by the camera. It is a hand, a wrist and an arm; no shoulder is attached. In the dish below the tiny, suspended arm, I see a leg. Eyeballs and lungs are among the other baby parts identified in the video.

I hope you watched the videos and that they made you sick, shocked and trembly. Horrifyingly, some admit they watched but remain unfazed. More than once, Scripture refers to this as people who have “eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear,” (Ezekiel 12:2).

If you watched the videos and remarked, “How can anyone watch this and not be devastated?” then you’re familiar with “eyes to see but do not see.”

You and I elected many with these unseeing eyes to Congress, and so, on Aug. 3, when they had a chance to pass a game-changing, life-saving bill, they didn’t. Be assured, however: This spiritual-physical battle is not over.

So long as you and I are breathing, we must fight for those whose first breath is under siege—

–For the boy who cannot scream from within the womb when a metal instrument approaches to dismember him.

–For the girl who cannot scoot away from her med-school-trained attacker because she’s in a dead-end scenario.

Until we have made abortion unimaginable for every sane American, we follow Paul’s directions:

“And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” (Galatians 6:9)

Christians, we don’t have the option of apathy or the validation of excuses, of which there have been plenty: “I’m not political.” “I’m busy.” “The videos are gross.” “Someone else will do it.” “It’s not my business.”

Oh, but it is your business. Fleshy-hearted humans don’t let other humans do this to each other.

So, while those with power, money and influence line up against us like a fifth-year senior linebacker set in his stance across from a string-bean freshman with porcelain bones. We. Press. On.

Do you recall that with the Lord’s help scrawny David fought beastly Goliath … and WON?

“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?” (Romans 8:31)

And one thing is for certain: If God is for us, we dare not be against ourselves. Do not acquiesce to the temptation of putting a trendy spin on this “issue” for the sake of—well anything at all. It may be cool in your circle to be self-deprecating and to apologize for everything under the sun in order to appear relatable. But please, don’t apologize for me.

This “issue” is zero percent about my understanding the thought process of those who find abortion acceptable. It is 100 percent about saving the lives of the babies who will be aborted today. And tomorrow. And this weekend.

Ponder this: If you were standing with a gun barrel to your forehead, would you take the time to tell the person holding a finger on the trigger that you empathize with what may have led them to think about killing you? Would you apologize for not understanding where they’re coming from? I highly doubt it.

I would not. I’d be crying and hyperventilating and sweating from every pore in my skin. Frantically, I’d beg for my life. And my begging wouldn’t necessarily convey anger, but desperation. Perhaps later I would be angry, and I bet you’d be willing to understand that. After all, it was unjust that someone held the gun to my forehead, meaning I was righteously angry.

Christian friends, there is such a thing.

“Be angry, and do not sin.” (Eph. 4:26)

By no means is this an easy task, but children’s lives are certainly worth our trudging through the muck and maneuvering this tight rope to defend them.

I implore you: Beg in desperation for these lives as fervently as you would your own half-lived life. Philippians 2 tells us to think of others as better than ourselves and to look out for the needs of others before our own. This is one way we live out that passage.

This is not merely an “issue of our times,” a platform on which to campaign, a hot-button blog topic or a re-tweetable hashtag.

THIS is laying down our lives for those of our unborn brothers—something Christ did perfectly when he died on the cross for me and for you… and for those who have believed a lie and stolen life. If any of us would turn from our wicked ways, Christ will save us and redeem us (1 John 1:9).

We have a duty to fight for the earthly lives of the unborn and the eternal lives of those who are convinced that the choice of one should trump the chance of another.

“Open your mouth for the speechless, in the cause of all who are appointed to die. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.”  (Psalm 31:8,9)

Do not give up. Do not accept defeat.

Resolve that we will be the generation that roars, “NO!”

No, we will not let you kill our brothers and our sisters. We won’t pay for it with our money, and we will fight for it with everything on the line. You may call us names, say we’re ignorant, blast our reputation or threaten us to pieces, but we will stand firm. We will stand for life. We won’t passively allow this to continue in our nation while we go on with the comforts of life, stick our heads in the sand and make weekend plans.

We, the army of the Lord, will fight until our commander calls us home.