Praise God, Roe has been overturned! Goodbye and good riddance. The legality of abortion will now be decided on the State level, where it was before Roe wrenched it unconstitutionally out of their hands. Morally, there is still a long way to go to ban it in all 50 states, but nonetheless hundreds of thousands of lives will be saved. This is a victory and we ought to take time to thank God for his mercy.
But this means we also need to check our hearts. Government is not God. We don’t use the government as a tool to replace the work of the Holy Spirit. Just because the government at this particular time acted to do what is just and good, does not mean the Church can rest back, kick up her feet and sip a fresh mint julep. Men will not stop knocking up women. Women will not stop getting pregnant and wishing they weren’t based on this ruling. So this is when we spring to action. The bomb has been dropped on the enemy and he is stunned, now the boots on the ground must hustle in and take the city.
As The Apostle Paul told us, laws can be good but do nothing to change the heart.
Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch!”? These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings. Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
Colossians 2:21-23 (ESV)
Any parent knows imposing structure on a child doesn’t keep the kid from eyeing the object of desire, only the potential energy from becoming kinetic. Removing ugliness is not the same thing as heralding beauty. It is the Church who must now proclaim all the more loudly the goodness of marriage, the blessing of children, the sacredness of sex, the indispensability of fathers, the civilization building magic of mothers, and the goodness of the Lord who blessed us with the resplendent molecule of the family.
But not only in word, but in action, we need to gird up our loins and dirty the hands lifting souls and lives from the filth despair and need. We ought not celebrate the ending of abortion while aborting our duty to love others. There will be women who need the courage and support to keep the child, the training and fortitude to raise the child, and whatever financial needs may arise as a result.
The wall has been breached. Take the city.
Thought Butter 