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God Values Life!
Contributed by Chris Gowen on Feb 3, 2001 (message contributor)
Summary: In a world that is becoming more selfish, and life seems so cheap, we can be sure God places great value on human life.
Someone sent me this letter:
Dear God,
Why didn’t you save the school children in Littleton, Colorado?
Sincerely,
Concerned Student
And the Reply...
Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.
Sincerely,
God
There is in our society today a disregard for God as our Creator. It is embarassing to folks to admit they our in need of God in our lives. We honor our independence. We are at the center of our world. WE NEED NO ONE. WE ARE IN TOTAL CHARGE.
We have one governor in America who considers any religion to only be a crutch for people. If we do acknowledge a Divine Being, it is only as it helps in promoting our selfish lifestyle. If we pray, it is only to promote our success. We want God on our team to help us win ballgames, lotteries, and to pursue a worldly, successful, self-promoting kind of
life.
In the 1960’s our American courts decided it was not proper to acknowledge God in our public schools. Evolution was the religion to be taught. The 10 commandments were considered old-fashion for our sophisticated culture. Prayer is now a politically incorrect thing to do at a football game.
America has forsaken the very God who has made America great! The ills of our country are only symptoms of a deeper problem. We have forsaken a holy God. The God of the Bible.
One of the proofs that show we have forsaken God, and we have dishonored God, and shown disrespect for God, is the way we treat HUMAN LIFE. We now have a low
regard for the dignity and respect for human life in America.
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth......”
When God made Adam, He made a unique human being. When God made Eve, He made a unique human being. Every human being in the world has a special uniqueness about
them that makes them very special. No one (even if you are an identical twin) is, or will ever be JUST LIKE YOU!
“I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are thy works: and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book al my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.”
It is God Who has made us. Psalm 100:3 “Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves, we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.”
Satan entered the pages of history and because of His pure hatred for God, Satan has a purpose to destroy the beauty of God’s creation.
John 10:10 “The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”
And just like Satan, when a society disregards God, and disrespects God, it will be revealed in the way society treats God’s creation. The crowning jewel of God’s creation was human beings. Satan has a vehement hatred for God’s special creation. A nation that does not acknowledge God and His laws will be subject to the ways of Satan. Satan’s way is only destruction.
The actions of people today reflect and show how much they have been influenced by Satan’s programs. Who would have thought years ago, we would be killing our own just for the sake of convenience?
On January 22, 1973, the United States Supreme Court decision in Roe vs. Wade voted 7-2 to begin what has become the most grievous national sin in America...the murder of babies, the shedding of innocent blood. Over 40,000,000 babies have died. 4,000 die each day in America without a chance for any kind of a future.
When we no longer recognize a Divine Creator Who has made us,then that opens a can of worms. If God did not create us, and we are only biological accidents, and If God did not create the world we live in, but it is only the results of a big bang, and the settling of
cosmic dust particles....then why should we be concerned about the morality of taking the life of an unborn child. If we have no God to answer to, then we can do whatever society will allow. We won’t have to face God, if God does not exist. We own our bodies, and can do whatever we choose. We have the right to choose! If it is in my best interest, then abortion is okay. That is the feeling of the majority of American citizens today.
