Life Begins At Conception

# 283 - Today's Du-votional comes from: 1Sa 20:30b-33, “ Do I not know that you have chosen the son of Jesse to your own shame and to the shame of your mother's nakedness? 31 "For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Now therefore, send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die." 32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said to him, "Why should he be killed? What has he done?" 33 Then Saul cast a spear at him to kill him, by which Jonathan knew that it was determined by his father to kill David. (1 Sam 20:30b-33) This so bizarre. In one breath Saul pleads with his son to think about his future and then in the next moment, in a fit of rage over what Saul perceives as a hopeless situation, he casts a spear at his own son, fully intent on killing him. This fit of rage was triggered by a great question from Jonathan. He simply wanted to know what David's crime was. Saul had no answer and his only response was to lash out at the one asking the question that went right to the heart. It's a question that right to lifers have been asking from the get-go, and it usually causes the same kind of reaction. Here's the question: “Name the crime of the unborn child. What has he or she done to deserve death? Did the unborn child engage in an illicit sex act? Did the unborn child rape? Name the crime and I will be the first one to come alongside and demand justice. Oh, but you say, that unborn child is not really alive.” Really. Think this through. The Bible says that we are CONCEIVED in sin. Sinners from conception on. The Bible also says the wages of sin is death. How is it possible to execute a death sentence on someone who is not alive? Life begins at conception! Listen, if you have committed this sin. Don't handle it like Saul. Don't lash out. Rather lash yourself to the cross and the mercy of Jesus, because there is no sin that He didn't die for. No sin that He will not forgive. Confess your sin and receive His forgiveness and healing.