Basket

Who is in your basket?  I heard this statement from Ravi Zacharias and it made me think about all the babies that have been aborted over the years and who they may have been and what they may have accomplished if they were allowed to live.  But regardless of whom they were or anything about them they all had one thing in common, they were all created in God’s image and likeness.  The question may be asked why God didn’t send someone to warn us of the impending dangers or other things that would have helped if we would have known about them.  The answer could be that He has, but they were not given a chance.

Think about the Apostle Paul for instance, he was a very smart intelligent man who trained under Gamaliel; he couldn’t have gotten any better training.  Paul was trained as a Pharisee and while in that role persecuted the church agreeing with Steven’s death, when Steven was martyred.  He then went trying to destroy the church by arresting all of the people he could find that were believers and having them thrown into prison.  But there was the day when Paul was on his way to Damascus to have the believers arrested, when he found something that he was not expecting and that was an encounter with the Lord himself, and from that day on he was never the same.  You can read about Paul’s conversion in Acts 9:1-19.

Now read what it says in Acts 9:24, “..but their plot became known to Saul. They were watching the gates day and night in order to kill him..”  

How can you know who is in your basket if they are not allowed a hearing by being aborted?  Paul went on to write two-thirds of the New Testament and helped shape Christianity like no other person, outside of the Lord himself.  What if he had been aborted?  

How many of the finest evangelistic voices in the world have been silenced by abortions along with the greatest artists or scientists or even Einstein’s and so forth.  Their voices will never be heard here because they have been silenced before they had a chance to contribute to our society either for good or evil depending on what path they would have chosen.

I can’t, in good conscience, just smooth this over because it is a grave sin with certain consequences but I am not here to judge you or to condemn you but to give you hope.  Jesus loves you and has provided a way for you to be forgiven and put in right standing with God.  He allowed himself to be crucified, to die and be buried for the sins of mankind but on the third day He rose again, a man who had no sin, became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God in Christ.  So if you are living with shame and guilt because of an abortion, or maybe more than one abortion, that you had, you can find forgiveness in Him; that is the good news.

Jesus said this in Matthew 12:31-32 to the Pharisees, “Therefore I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven people, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. And whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”

This is what the footnotes in my Bible say about this, “Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is denying that the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin.  Because a person can be saved only through the Holy Spirit’s work, to refuse to repent or even to acknowledge our sin is to refuse God’s forgiveness.  Sometimes believers worry that they have accidently committed this unforgivable sin.  But only those who have turned their backs on God and rejected all faith have any need to worry.  Jesus said they can’t be forgiven – not because their sin is worse than any other, but because they will never ask for forgiveness.  Whoever rejects the prompting of the Holy Spirit removes himself from the only force that can lead him to repentance and restoration to God.” 

                     

If you want to find forgiveness and restoration and God’s peace, love and joy, repent of your sins and confess what you have done.  This may have been done in secret but God knows all things and this is no exception.  He knew it was going to take place before it happened, but He gave of us a free will to choose.  I believe these little aborted babies are with Him in heaven because they were innocent children that had no say one way or other in what happened to them.  

We are all accountable for our own sins, but praise to our God there is forgiveness and restoration through His love and grace.  Read what God’s Word says in 1 John 1:9, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”  

Now read what John 3:16-17 says, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.”

God is seeking the humble and contrite heart that He will not despise.  So, repent of your sins, which means to turn away from your sins and to go in the other direction, and ask the Lord to forgive you and to come into your heart and be the Lord of your life.  If you are sincere, I believe that He will and you will be born-again, praise the Lord!!  Then you can go forth thanking and praising the Lord!!  I hope this Tidbit is a blessing and a help to you, it is certainly something to think about which I hope you will and that you will make the right choice.  May you have a super day and may the good Lord bless you and yours!!