I’m Duane Matz and
welcome to Today’s Living Word.
It’s been a while
since the last posting of Today’s Living Word, but I want to continue looking
at Psalm 94 and its clear message regarding the culture of life vs the culture
of death.
Ps 94:1 O LORD God, to
whom vengeance belongs-O God, to whom vengeance belongs, shine forth!
2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth; Render
punishment to the proud.
3 LORD, how long will the wicked, How long
will the wicked triumph?
4 They utter speech, and speak insolent
things; All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.
5 They break in pieces Your people, O LORD,
And afflict Your heritage.
6 They slay the widow and the stranger, And
murder the fatherless.
7 Yet they say, "The LORD does not see,
Nor does the God of Jacob understand."
I just received the
latest copy of the Lutherans For Life publication, “Lifedate,” and on the back
page in bold letters was this sobering statistic: 63,443,118 babies have been
killed in abortions since Roe V Wade in 1973. That’s 1.2 million a year, 3400 a
day, 142 an hour, 2.36 every minute.
With the overturning
of Roe v Wade in the Dobbs decision of 2022 one would think the abortion
numbers would go down. They didn’t.
According to the
Planned Parenthood research arm, (The Guttmacher Institute) abortions last year
increased by 10% to the tune of 1,926,690 pre-born lives snuffed out in one
calendar year.
Recently, Walgreens and CVS pharmacies
announced that they will begin providing the abortion pill mifepristone (miff eh
priss’ stone) in a few select states via a doctors prescription beginning this
month.
What a deal, stop by the drugstore for a little
cough syrup to end a cold, an while you’re at it, something to end an innocent
unborn baby’s life.
Sadly there is no shortage of doctors willing
to write such a deadly prescription.
The Psalm that I have quoted above sounds
prideful and self-righteous if it comes from my mouth , but not so much if it
comes from the mouths of unborn babes. It is the plea from the blood of unborn
children to God! This blood is no different than the blood of innocent Abel crying
out to God!
Ge 4:10 “The voice of your brother's blood
cries out to Me from the ground.”
Abels blood speaks loud from the ground to be
sure, but there is a blood that speaks even louder, and if you have
participated in the act of abortion in some way or another, please remember
this verse from Hebrews: Heb 12:24 to Jesus the Mediator of the new
covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling that speaks better things than that of
Abel.
The blood of Abel calls out for vengeance, but the
blood of Jesus calls out for forgiveness, know this! Believe this! There is no
sin (yes even the sin of abortion, that the blood of Jesus did not pay for on
the cross.
I’m Duane Matz and that’s
Today’s Living Word
