Whether it’s the media, a politician running for office, a coworker, or a neighbor, everyone seems to have their thoughts about the planned parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs from this past Friday, November 27. So who do you listen to? With so many voices and opinions, how can anyone make any sense of such a horrific event?
But does anyone ask, “What does God think?” That is the important question. “Wait a minute”, you say. “How can you bring God into the discussion?”, you ask. I say, “How can you NOT?” When everything in life, tragedy or triumph, is viewed from God’s perspective, then things begin to make some sense.(Psalm 73:16-17) And we know what God thinks because He has revealed His mind in the pages of Holy Scripture.
To view the Bible as a book of theology consigned only to the ivory towers of a seminary without any practical implications for life is to not understand the beginning of wisdom.(Proverbs 1:1-7)
So the first question is: “What does God think of planned parenthood?” The Scripture is clear that only God has the authority over life and death. He is the one who gives life to every man.
“The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since He Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.”
Acts 17:24-25
And He has revealed in His Word that life begins at conception. Just read the magnificent picture the Psalmist, King David, paints here.
For you formed my inward parts;
you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
My frame was not hidden from you,
when I was being made in secret,
intricately woven in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed substance;
in Your book were written, every one of them,
the days that were formed for me,
when as yet there was none of them.Psalm 139:13-16
Just imagine that God, the giver of life, the Creator, the One who knits us in our mother’s womb, had foreordained all of one’s days before birth: “In Your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.”
So God thinks that planned parenthood is just a nice cover up name for abortion. Or to be more exact, murder, because it is a taking of a life. Not some undeveloped tissue, but a life!
But furthermore, “What does God think of the shooter?”
“Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave it to the wrath of God, for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.”
Romans 12:19
So God thinks that the shooter’s actions were a usurpation of the authority that belongs to God alone to avenge all wrongdoing.
In both cases, to God, it is murder to take the life of an unborn child or to take the lives of others. And murder to God is sin, something that He does not take lightly, because of the perfection of His holy character.
“The soul who sins shall die.”
Ezekiel 18:20
That includes everyone!
“If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them”
1 Kings 8:46
And man’s sin, which originates in the heart(Jeremiah 17:9; Matthew 15:19) and is first and foremost against God(Psalm 51:4), kindles God’s anger, His wrath, His righteous indignation.
Those who kill unborn children, in planned parenthood clinics, will one day have to give an account to God. Those who kill others, like the shooter, will also have to give an account to God. And you will have to give an account to God yourself(Romans 14:12).
But, the good news is there is one who is the Author of Life, namely Jesus Christ.
“and you killed the Author of life, whom God raised from the dead.”
Acts 3:15
Will you turn to Him today in faith and repentance for the forgiveness of your sins?
“Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.”
2 Corinthians 6:2b
