i keep reading, the latest from marvin olasky in world magazine, that we should be encouraged about abortion. we should realize that although many are being murdered some are being saved. we should work for a change of heart in women by providing understanding and support of different kinds. all these things are great. they are components of a solution. they are commonsensical and reasonable. but they only make me want to cry out, 'but people are being murdered... i mean, would we use this reasoning if infants in souderton were one by one being murdered in their cribs. we are living with total injustice. i have now since the early part of 07 had one thought concerning abortion: resist it and pay the price. i keep praying 'Lord, what do You want me to do?' it is somewhat stupid to pray about something when you've already been told to defend the orphan. the things olasky mentioned above are a defense of sorts. the only trouble is it is a defense that has holes so big convoys of murderous mack trucks can drive through.
in my current study of justice in the old testament i may have come across something in ezekiel 22 'the people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery, and they have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice. I searched for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it; but i found no one. (22:29-30) this is not a new verse to me but i have gained a fresh view of it through the lens of justice. someone could say that no man but the God-man, Jesus Christ, could be in view here, but if this is not just prophetic of Jesus and is a legitimate search on the part of God for a sinful man then that means someone like little, old, sinful me could in some way 'stand in the gap'. so i muse on this and, perhaps,crazily, i think that by going to prison i could be that man...that in some weird way by taking that action as a solemn protest against our ho-hum attitude to baby murder...that that would cause God not to destroy us (..a man...who would...stand in the gap...so that I would not destroy it..). abraham got God down to 10 people for which God would not destroy sodom. is it lunacy to think He would not destroy us for one who would offer himself up? is offering oneself up to prison by means of a symbolic act that in a real sense means nothing equal to standing in the gap? what exactly does standing in the gap mean? i don't have a clue. the whole idea of standing in the gap by going to jail could be directly from the devil ...anyway, something strange happened in my spirit as i read those 2 verses...God's improbable math, 1 for 330 million? sounds too crazy. i must be misunderstanding what it means. one thing i know that the slow boil of isaiah 1:17 continues in my soul. may God guide me.
russ stence, his daughter melody and possibly a friend are coming down from rochester tomorrow night to go to the right to life march thursday. wrote a letter on abortion to the editor of the souderton independent and it was rejected by the executive editor of montgomery newspapers, mike morsch, once again. he now says that i can only submit one letter per month. so i guess my public free speech is down to 300 words every 30 days.
i have been led to share little 30 second blurbs in the reporter, in lansdale. this format, sound off, is anonymous so maybe i can start to share things in that way. this am i called in 'oh Lord, forgive me for not obeying Your command while i observed president bush destroying us. forgive me for not making entreaties for him every day! (this command is in I tim. 2:1 i believe) help me pray for president obama every day! they all scare me, Lord, when they keep talkig about the solution to our problems being WE rather than falling down before You and looking only to You. oh God of the Bible, put Your merciful finger under president obama's little chin and raise it gently to see only You, to do only what is your will. oh Lord, along with president obama's little chin would You mercifully raise our little chins too! for You know that cursed is the man who puts his trust in man.' so we'll see if it sees print.
well its now tuesday night so i got to get this off to you. i pray about what to share with you and often i'll get a sense that i should share something and will jot it next to 'fame' (that means family email). well i still have so many items there and only 16 minutes more i can write so ...Lord, help me know what to share...recently read a short article on fasting by derek prince. he dealt with the passage where the disciples of john the baptist come to Jesus and ask why do we and the pharisees fast but Your disciples do not fast. Jesus' response was to use the illustration of a bridegroom with his attendants. they couldn't fast while with the bridegroom, but the time would come when the bridegroom would go away and then they will fast. very familiar story. a story that in a niggling way always quietly said, Jesus is the bridegroom. He is gone now. it is appropriate for you, who say you are associated with Him, to fast now that He is not here. as i've probably told you i've virtually never fasted as an act of obedience or to be in the position He wants me in. i casually dismissed it because it was too hard. it was something i did not like to do. as i read i guess the Lord just...kind of gave me grace and i decided i would start. as i prayed i came up with the idea of copying my father in his habit of fasting on fridays (he got it from john wesley who got it from the early church). it seems it was common to fast wednesdays and fridays. also thot friday was appropriate for that is the day i go to planned parenthood. last friday was able to, so...God helping me i hope to fast fridays. isaiah 58 has often spoken to me about the numerous benefits of fasting. oh may God help me to want to please Him in each detail of life. well i blabbed out the whole 16 minutes on that. anyway, may God bless you and i hope you have a good week. love, dad
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