I recently learned I am to be a grandfather for the first
time. I have started praying for the
baby God's blessing. Not long after
starting to do that the thought came to my mind that that is one thing those
who contemplate having an abortion and those who believe in abortion cannot
do. I had never thought about that.
How does one pray for a baby they plan to abort or
kill? How do those who believe in
abortion pray for what they consider to be just a mass of blood and biological
tissue, non-human? One might pray for
his/her heart if they had health problems with the physical heart but that
would be because one wanted life and health.
In the case of those desiring abortion, they want death. Does one pray “kill this thing?”
If those who believe in abortion respond by saying we can
pray for a pregnancy where no abortion is planned then I say how is there any
consistency in that? Is that which is
within the womb human if we plan on keeping it but just tissue and blood, non-human,
if we desire to rid ourselves of it?
"Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, The
fruit of the womb is his reward." (Psalms 127:3 NKJV) Obviously, not everyone is willing to accept
that.
What if the child is born out of wedlock? What if it is? Jephthah, the son of a prostitute (Judges
11:1), is listed in what we often call God's hall of fame of the faithful in
Hebrews 11:32. Based on the way his half-brothers
cast him out it seems very likely his father was never married to the prostitute
mother. Lange's Commentary reads as
follows:
"If he
had been the son of one who was properly a wife, his brothers would doubtless
have been obliged to admit him to a share in the inheritance … But they
maintained that his mother had not been a wife of their father at all, not even
one of secondary rank,—that she was nothing but a harlot."
No matter
how a child is conceived God is responsible for giving the life. In the womb, God is in the process of making us. "Did not he who made me in the womb make
them? Did not the same one fashion us in the womb?" (Job 31:15 NKJV) Jeremiah says the word of the Lord came to
him saying, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you." (Jer. 1:5
NKJV) Would it have been okay to abort
Jeremiah while he was still in the womb?
How about the apostle Paul? How
about Jesus himself?
One never
knows how a child will turn out but we must remember the child is God's
creation, not our own. Man should not
interfere with God's work. God opens and
closes wombs (Gen. 29:31, 30:22, 1 Sam. 1:5-6) and it is he who fashions us in
the womb.
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