UNCHANGEABLE STANDARD

Many times I have wondered about God's patience towards mankind. He remains as loving and forgiving as He has been right from the creation of the world, despite the increasing disobedience and wickedness of men. However, it is often forgotten that just as unchangeable as His character is, so also the laws He's laid down for everyone to follow.

A girl walked into our Brooklyn office yesterday and asked for a sonogram. To her surprise, she was twenty-two weeks pregnant; yet, considering abortion. Why in the world would she want to abort the baby even at this stage? She said aborting the baby was for the best because she did not have the normal father-mother upbringing which affected her negatively and she swore that none of her children would ever experience it. After she said this, I showed her a brochure on a second trimester abortion procedure and tried explaining to her the risks. After carefully reading it,she concluded that the risks were worth taking in order to prevent a repetition of the single-mother upbringing she had. Well, i was not going to pressure her about it, but what i was going to do was correct an impression she had of God.

She said, in our conversation, that God will support her in this decision because he understands her situation and he'll also keep her from the possible risks. No! He will not. Just because he loves you does not mean that he approves of your disobedience to him. Just because you may come out alive and well does not mean that he adjusted his law to suit your situation. If he remains the same in love and grace, he remains the same with his laws and what he expects of us. He does and will not force us to obey him because expects us to reciprocate his love by obeying him. He is a God of love not of force. And he is a God of UNCHANGEABLE STANDARDS.

Having clarified that, she admitted that she knew what she was about to do was wrong but that she still had to. Although i was sad about her decision, the fact that i was able to clarify who the God the bible talks about is, whom i also believed she was referring to, i was consoled.