What does it mean to say there are lives in the balance? Usually, it means that some decision, that can affect a lot of people, is about to be made. Tragically, most of the time that decision is made by so-called leaders with no wisdom.
And they pay lip service to certain lives in the balance.
No wonder so many people in the world live without hope. It’s not that there isn’t any hope. It’s just that the world only has one source of real hope. And most people seem to prefer to ignore, and even hate, that source. And that’s in a day and age when those same people pat themselves on the back and say “love is love.”
But they don’t mean it for everybody.
Nope, that snappy little catchphrase is not for unborn or pre-born babies.
OK, I know I’m one of those judgmental-narrow-minded-anti-choice Christians. But I urge you to open your mind to the possibility that the most popular book of all time might hold that title for a good reason. Maybe there truly is a message of hope found inside its pages. I say. there is. But don’t take my word for it.
Read it. At least read the New Testament part. It can point you in the right eternal direction. And. I (can almost) guarantee you won’t be struck by lightning. Try it. But don’t put it off too long. There’s a limited time offer in there.
When I was the music minister for a little church in Denver, Colorado, I wrote a “pro life” song about how unborn babies are people too. It was to support something called the personhood initiative that was on the ballot to be voted on by the people of Colorado. But it was voted down. Because “love is love” ain’t for babies in the womb, don’t you know.
Here are the lyrics. If you’d like to hear the whole thing, subscribe to The Rhyme And Reason Podcast.
Personhood
You should thank your Mom
‘Cause she thought of you as a person.
From the very start
She was calling you her daughter or her son.
And though life isn’t easy,
Our Moms still believed we would make it.
Now some call life a choice, but it’s still a precious life.
We can’t take it.
We can’t forsake it!
Give an unborn baby personhood
There’s nothing more important we can do!
Give an unborn baby personhood.
60 million persons tell us to… they tell us to!
We can read all the judgments,
And continue to build our big plans.
But there are lives in the balance,
And the choice is right in our hands.
So do we sit idle?
Or is there a way we can stand tall?
Can’t we stand for life?
Or do we really stand for nothing at all?
And let the innocent fall?
(Chorus)
If human life is just sown by chance, then
Nothing we know could be bad or be good.
If we’re just embryonic particulate matter,
Then we could know there is no personhood…
But we hope and we pray
And we live for the day,
When our love becomes broad
In the image of God.
(Chorus) © 2007-2023 TF
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