Bloody Mary

Let me tell you a story about Mary. Mary is a typical twenty- two-year-old who lives in a suburban neighborhood and has a good job working at a local supermarket. But she also happens to have a boyfriend—a boyfriend who won’t leave her alone. For some time now (and it’s getting more and more annoying), Mike seems to have just one thing on his mind. No, not sex. Sex Mary can handle. It’s marriage. Mike keeps trying to get Mary to tie the knot, but he doesn’t seem to get it through his thick head that marriage isn’t what Mary wants. She’s young; she’s a free spirit. Marriage will just weigh her down. A ring on the finger is a boat anchor around the neck.

One day Mary finally decides she can’t take any more of Mike’s pestering. So what does she do? The only thing she can do, of course. Get rid of Mike! Late that night she waits in the dark outside the supermarket where she has told Mike to meet her, and as soon as he comes by, she grabs a monster axe from behind the dumpster, swings it with all her might, and drives it straight into the back of his head. Then she proceeds to chop him up into tiny pieces, which she throws into the dumpster along with the axe.

Well, it doesn’t take long for someone to discover what is left of Mike, and soon Mary has to go to the police department to make a statement. After she relates what she did and why, the police tell her that she made the right choice, and let her go.

True story? What would you say if I said yes? What would you say if I told you that this same kind of murder takes place in our country once every three minutes? I will admit that I changed a few location details as well as the age of the victim; usually the victim has been alive for only a few weeks, maybe a few months, and is a lot smaller than Mike.

I’m talking about abortion.

Since 1973, there have been 49,551,703 abortions in America. That’s almost fifty million people. Hitler? Doesn’t even compare. He killed only six million Jews. Stalin? We’ve left him in the dust. He killed seventeen million Russians. We’ve slaughtered as much as two Hitlers and two Stalins combined, but do you know the really scary thing? Over half of the abortions are obtained by women who identify themselves as either Protestant or born again/evangelical (http://www.abortionno.org/Resources/fastfacts.html). This video may help with perspective. http://youtu.be/ektNpslOUPM.

So what do we do about it?  The only way to truly fix this problem is not to write our congressmen and demand that abortion be made illegal (although we should), but to pray that God would turn the heart of the church back to Him. There must be reformation in the church before there can be any real reformation in our country. We, the bride of Christ, must change the culture around us, not be changed by it.