Both Can't Be Right - Monday September 15, 2014
Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends. John 15:13 NIV
Recently, I read a heart breaking story. Here is an excerpt from the USA Today story dated April 4, 2014:
Cancer survivor Elizabeth Joice was told the chemotherapy that helped her beat sarcoma would also leave her infertile, so when she and husband Max got the news that she was in fact pregnant last year, "it very much felt like a miracle," he tells CNN. . . . Just a month into her pregnancy, Joice's cancer returned. . . and there was no way of knowing how far the cancer had spread without a full-body MRI scan. But the dyes used in the scan could harm the baby, meaning she'd need to end the pregnancy before undergoing the procedure. Joice opted to continue with her pregnancy... January 23 brought both joy and devastation. Joice had a baby girl, Lily, via C-section, but "there were tons of tumor[s]," her doctor tells ABC News. . . .She died six weeks later, on March 9. Her doctor re-members the first time she saw Joice hold her baby. "The joy on her face was just incredible," she says. "She said, 'This is worth it. I would do it all again to have this child.'"
What a powerful example of a mother's self-sacrifice for her unborn child. But this also caused me to reflect on the abortion holocaust happening in our country. We can't praise the self-sacrifice of a dying mother for her unborn child, but at the same time commend the "right to reproductive freedom"! Both can't be right!
Thank you to Jesus for the grace and forgiveness He extends to us both individually and collectively. Join me in praying for the elimination of abortion.
Submitted by:
Josh Whitney
The Rock Church
Salt Lake City, Utah
One-Year Reading Plan:
Isaiah 19:1-21:17
Galatians 2:1-16
Psalms 59:1-17
Proverbs 23:13-14
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