I am actually writing this “response” the morning of Election Day. We just finished staff devotions based on Psalm 118:8-9. “It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.”
Regardless who the president might be, LFL will continue to trust and take refuge in the Lord of Life, not our elected officials.
On November 7 and beyond, we will continue to do what we were doing preceding November 7. We will apply the heart-and-life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ to the life issues. We will equip other Lutherans to do the same. For until we have more Gospel-motivated voices For Life speaking boldly in our churches seeking to change hearts and minds, elections will not change a thing.
If Barack Obama is our president, at least 3,200 babies will be murdered every single day for the next four years.
If Mitt Romney is our president, at least 3,200 babies will be murdered every single day for the next four years. Mitt Romney may sign an executive order or two that would restrict funding abortions in various ways—and we would be thankful for that—but, generally speaking, the slaughter will continue.
The slaughter will continue until the American people shout, “Enough is enough!” so loudly and consistently that it cannot be ignored. But this will never happen until the American people stop ignoring the shed blood of our children for the sake of their pocketbooks and 401K’s. And this will never happen until the Church stops ignoring the shed blood of our children for the sake of avoiding “politics” or controversy.
I once asked this rhetorical question in a sermon, “If we as God’s people will not stand up and call this wrong thing wrong, who will? If we as God’s people will not stand up and bring the healing Gospel of Jesus to those wounded by this wrong thing, who will?” A little girl in the front row who obviously did not know or care anything about “rhetorical,” raised her hand and shouted for all to hear, “I will! I will!”
At LFL we are very grateful for those of you who took your Christian values and convictions with you and voted in this election. But now we ask that you trust in the Lord and not in princes. Now we ask that you vote again by a show of hands and a proclamation of the lips, “I will! I will!” That will be the beginning of real and lasting change.
Your servant For Life,
Jim Lamb Executive Director of Lutherans For Life
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I believe that the strongest testimony to chose life can only come from those who have been affected by abortion or the choice of life.
My mother was "forced" by my father to have an abortion before my birth as they were not yet married. Because of the damage that was done, I am an only child. When I became pregnant, my husband and I also were not married. I was very strongly encouraged to abort. This by the very mother who took me to church and Sunday school every week, who suffered extreme guilt over what she had chosen. I chose life for our daughter. Shortly after she was born, and my husband and I got married, my father became ill with cancer. He suffered from cancer and strokes for two years before he died. Durring those two years my mom lived for the times she could spend holding our daugher. She later told me that if it hadn't been for our daughter she didn't know how she could have made it through.
Our daughter was a miracle. I had been told 8 years prior to my pregnancy that I couldn't have children. I truely believe she is a gift from God, in His time, and in His wisdom.
The Lutherans should think about WWJD. The J could refer to John the Baptist, John the Apostle, Jonah, Jehu, and finally even Jesus. They were all active, public street preachers who explained the law explicitly and completely. I haven't heard a Lutheran pastor do that in the last 60 years!! Jehovah's word is murder, the unauthorized separation of the body from its living soul, not abortion.
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