A Matter of Life and Death

I have not devoted many blogs to politics, but after listening to Barack Obama’s speech last night, I cannot help myself. There are many things that I would like to say, but I will limit myself to a couple of topics. The purpose of my blog is not to tell you how to think. If you listened to the Obama speech, you must draw your own conclusions.

I will share with you what I think. I think it is ridiculous for a person running for the presidency of the United States to say, “We might not all agree on the abortion issue, but we must work together to lessen unwanted pregnancy.” The liberals (now calling themselves progressives) have been vehemently opposed to abstinence education in public schools. While the safe sex message has been promoted in our schools and in our culture, approximately 2,500 teenage girls a day become pregnant. While abortion supporters pass out condoms, 12,000 teens every single day contract a sexually transmitted disease. A number of these diseases are not curable.

I have purposely included a picture here of our granddaughter Hannah Elizabeth Fuller. Our first grandson (see ultra-sound above) will be born in January 2009 and then another grandchild in March 2009. Even though he is still in his mother’s womb, our grandson’s name is Caleb Haddon Svoboda. How awesome! What is extremely sad is the fact that over 50 million Hannah’s and Caleb’s have been senselessly and sometimes brutally killed. Christians often pray for God to bless America, but why should we expect God to bless a nation that murders their babies.

How can a politician with any kind of integrity say, “We need to help the poor” and yet support killing the unborn. How empty are the words, “We must make health care affordable for every American” while supporting partial birth abortion. How laughable is a statement like, “We must protect our precious environment” when we cannot protect our precious babies. And for all of you who call yourselves Christians and do not take a stand against abortion, shame on you. I am hearing younger “emerging” Christians deflect the issue by saying we should be engaged in more than one or two issues. REALLY? When the issue deals with life, nothing is more important! I am pretty sure universal health care, alternative energy sources, social security, poverty, environmental issues, and even war did not make God’s top ten list. LIFE DID!

What I do see is, “you shall have no other gods before me” (ex. 20:3) and, “You shall not murder” (ex. 20:13) What I do see is that we are created in the “image of God” (Gen.1:27) and that we are “knit together in our mother’s womb" (Psalm 139:13) just as Hannah, Caleb, and new baby Fuller. If you are not currently engaged in the political process, you need to get there. It truly is a matter of life and death.

-craig