Handmade - Recap of 33Live, February 6th
Handmade - February 6, 2008
By Mandee Widrick
No two people are alike. Each and every person has been handcrafted by God to have his or her own unique appearance and personality. It’s an unmatched creativity that only God can put into His people.
Kent Murawski, executive director of B.A.S.I.C. college ministries, visited 33Live last night with a powerful message of life. His message was one of a topic that is too often looked upon with silence: abortion.
Since abortion was made legal in 1973, an estimated 50 million babies have been aborted, roughly 4,000 lives a day. I want you to take a moment and let that number sink in. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: “A time comes when silence is betrayal.” As Dante stated, “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality.” These two quotes alone speak volumes beyond measure. God is asking us to stand up and fight for those who cannot fight back. Are you ready to stand?
When we make something out of our own two hands, it’s something special that we put careful thought, effort, and love into developing. Let’s use a birdhouse as an example. You have built with your own hands a beautiful birdhouse. It’s been handcrafted in a way that no one can identically copy, because it’s unique, like its creator. You then give the birdhouse to the bird because you treasure the life that it will bring into the world. The bird accepts this gift, and lays her eggs inside the birdhouse where they should be safe from harm. Now, imagine that one day while the bird is gone, a thief comes and invades that safe haven you have blessed the bird with. The thief snatches the unborn eggs away and casts them aside to die while the bird does nothing. They have no chance for survival. They cannot fight the inevitable.
This is what happens to that young life that’s just waiting inside its mother. The baby, even unborn, feels a security in the womb, a knowing that it is the safest place to be until the day arrives when he or she is ready to venture out. Abortion invades that safe haven, and steals away the life that is waiting to become someone special.
Kent asked that we join with him in believing for waves of Americans to stand in the largest Pro Life movement ever. See…we can’t just be against something, we must also be FOR something. God has a plan for each and every unborn baby, and His heart breaks every time one of those lives is taken away. Let’s be a generation for saving those unborn lives, for the end of abortion, for the healing of every man and woman involved.
Let’s stand in the gap and start using the voices God has given us. Love on these unwed mothers, fathers, these doctors and nurses, and share with them the compassion that will change lives and save lives. It’s time to stop standing back and expecting others to do it for us. We are God’s chosen ones, so let’s do this thing He’s asking. Don’t betray His people!
Silence is betrayal………………….
