You can love the person who has had an abortion AND stand against abortion. 👆🏻Read. That. Again.
The posts are flying around social media today, as one would expect. Some of them I have found rather alarming. Shocking.
Well-intentioned albeit disillusioned people who claim to follow Christ are using such words as disappointed, sad, and mourning the decision of SCOTUS to overturn federal laws protecting abortion in this country. Tragic.
Well-intentioned albeit disillusioned people who claim to be good humans but not followers of Christ are sharing such sentiments as the aforementioned. Expected yet remains tragic.
Some are angered and outraged at the idea their bodily autonomy has been infringed upon by a single person including the government. Sadly, these are a myriad of people who are in both camps (first clue) with complete disregard to the autonomy of the life of the child in the womb. Tragic. More than tragic.
“Justice is a joy to the godly, but it terrifies evildoers.”
Proverbs 21:15 NLT
Some are joyous for the win for life recognizing our battle has just begun. I know I am.
“I knew you before I formed you in your mother’s womb…”Jeremiah 1:5
“You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed.”
Psalms 139:13, 15-16 NLT
What I find most disturbing is the complete lack of understanding of what love is. Love as defined by our call to love the sinner NOT the sin. It’s a love the world fails to understand. It’s a love the disillusioned people claiming to know Christ while refusing to call sin what it is, sin, fails to understand.
*I love a person who had an abortion. As if you cannot love someone who had an abortion and stand against abortion.
*If you celebrate today, unfriend me. As if you cannot oppose abortion and love someone who supports it without joining their cause.
*If it were about the babies, EVERY other humanitarian issue would be resolved. As if this world is not fallen, broken, and temporal. Applying that same logic, we cannot resolve any issue until EVERY other issue some or many or a few of us decide is a contingency decision.
*I don’t support abortion but I don’t have the right to tell you what to do. Transparently, I can’t even go there in a blog post. It’s literally too much as the absurdity of that statement leaves me in awe.
*If you are prolife IN the womb you have to prove you are prolife OUT of the womb by doing all of the following stipulations which is not an all inclusive list because the world is never satisfied and each time you give an inch they take a mile. So…you are telling me if I adopt, foster, volunteer my time at a pregnancy center, and donate money to support charitable organizations I can be prolife?!?!!! Until you find out I do those things and now you remain unsatisfied.
The list goes on, they’ll continue. Loudly.
My heart grieves and deeply aches at the level of deceit running rampant in the world where evil dances in the streets yet remains unseen and even celebrated as good.
You see, I love differently. I am called to have compassion for others, give grace, show mercy, love the sinner NOT the sin. Show Jesus.
Let me be clear, no Holy Ghost filled woman of God can support abortion as a form of love, tolerance, acceptance, or call it righteous. For ANY reason. Proverbs 6:17
Oh, but don’t be confused sisters, we can AND should love. John 13:34
Remember though, love as Christ loves is NOT love as the world defines and even demands it.
Pause. Read. That. Again. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NLT
My love for others is rooted in the understanding of a Christ like love that is patient, kind, not jealous or boastful, but rejoices when truth wins out. I am hopeful.
My calling above all else is to live in pursuit of righteousness EVEN when the world says unrighteousness is legal and acceptable as a form of “love and tolerance” for others.
“Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”
Matthew 5:6 KJV
“And we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures. We should live in this evil world with wisdom, righteousness, and devotion to God,”
Titus 2:12 NLT
The world says, if you disagree with me you don’t love me. That is simply untrue friends. We can and should disagree when biblical truth is asked to be compromised for the world. That does not mean we cannot lovingly respect the person our Savior died for. In case you’re wondering, it’s both of us.
I love someone who had an abortion. I loved her before the abortion. I loved her through the abortion. And I love her all these years after the abortion.
If you ask her if I support abortion, her answer will be no.
If you ask her if I supported her abortion, her answer will remain no.
If you ask her if I love her, her answer is yes.
Who is someone? Does she have a name? My someone does. Yours does too.
Stop believing the lies and deceit of the enemy.
Your job as a follower of Christ is to stand firm in the face of adversity for truth aligning with the biblical principles God has laid before us.
Your job as a follower of Christ is to love the sinner NOT the sin. Jesus did not spend one of his days on this earth ministering affirmation of identity in the form of inclusion and tolerance for sin. He spent every one of his days ministering transformation of life in the form of compassionate relentless love for the soul as he condemned sin. 👈🏻Know. The. Difference.
You can love the person who has had an abortion AND stand against abortion.
As a servant of Christ, I love differently than you, as I should.
In love,
Bobbie
