Gruesome

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word: *Warning this blog contains some gruesome material, but it needs to be said.

 

Mic 3:2 You who hate good and love evil; Who strip the skin from My people, And the flesh from their bones;  3 Who also eat the flesh of My people, Flay their skin from them, Break their bones, And chop them in pieces Like meat for the pot, Like flesh in the caldron."  4 Then they will cry to the LORD, But He will not hear them; He will even hide His face from them at that time, Because they have been evil in their deeds.

This is in the Word of God? Pretty gruesome, isn’t it? Is this to be taken literally or figuratively? In a figurative sense this is a picture of ultimate cruelty toward others. In a literal sense, it would be the practice of skinning someone alive, stripping their flesh away from their bones, breaking their bones and chopping them to pieces.

 

Surely Micah is speaking in a figurative sense, but horrifically, this is happening in a literal sense in places where abortion is still legal in America. Though seldom used today, saline abortions were common in the 70’s and 80’s and they would literally burn the skin off an unborn child.

 

More common was the use of a curette to remove the “contents of the uterus” (read that the unborn baby) where bones were crushed and babies where literally chopped to pieces.

As far as I know, no one is eating these babies but often, their once living body parts, are used for research and other purposes to “make our lives better.” Mother Theresa once said, “It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish.

 

Look, I know we’d rather not talk about these things, but stop candy coating the act of abortion under the guise of reproductive freedom. It’s not! It’s a gruesome and cruel act of violence against someone created in the image of God!

 

We read here that God responds to such cruelty toward others by closing His ears to the prayers of a people who embrace these evil deeds.  Such acts are likened to hating good and loving evil! Is that how you want to be identified?

 

This is serious stuff my friends and again I remind you that even the gruesome cruel act of abortion is forgivable. There is no sin that Jesus didn’t pay for on the cross. Confess it and be det free from guilt as you receive His forgiveness!

 

1Jo 1:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word