Tomorrow the number 5 and number 8 teams in college
football meet for a huge showdown in Jacksonville,
Florida: the Florida-Georgia game.
A few hours ago, I spoke at a fundraising banquet for
a pregnancy resource center here in Jacksonville,
after visiting the local 40 Days for Life campaign
that has mobilized 1,500 people and saved 6 lives.
At the banquet, I shared the platform with Pam Tebow,
mother of Florida quarterback -- and Heisman trophy
winner -- Tim Tebow.
She shared her amazing testimony about how doctors
had actually advised her to abort Tim when she was
pregnant with him...
...And why she refused.
She also shared how ESPN broadcast their amazing pro-
life testimony around the world, saving other lives.
After the dinner, Pam and her husband Bob sat down
with me to record a short audio clip to share their
story and to encourage YOU to persevere in your
40 Days for Life efforts.
I think you'll be blessed by the picture and seven-
minute audio I just posted online at:
http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=168
Today's devotional calls us to become vessels of
hope. It is indeed hope that you are bringing to the
abortion centers.
Women who are on the brink of abortion see no hope,
unless you're there to bring them hope: hope in God,
and hope in the form of better options for themselves
and their children.
Christ warned of those who would call good evil, and
call evil good.
We saw that firsthand in some pictures Bob sent from
an abortion center in Michigan. The clinic staff
posted four large message boards in the building's
windows -- three panels were an open letter to
"persons of faith" and the fourth was titled "a
blessing."
See picture online at:
http://40daysforlife.com/blog/?p=168
The letter began, "We forgive you for your
infringement into what is a deeply personal and
difficult time in our lives... We forgive you for
your lack of understanding, your blind assumptions
and your lack of faith in us."
The whole point of the letter is to make 40 Days for
Life vigil participants question why they stand
outside and pray, attempting to create confusion
about the very clear difference between right and
wrong that is central to the effort to end abortion.
The letter continued with a rehash of worn-out
abortion rhetoric. It suggests that in addition to
praying for an end to abortion, vigil participants
should "pray for universal health care, a living wage
and affordable child care," as if any perceived lack
of support in those areas offers justification for
terminating the life of innocent unborn children.
In short, this set of posters was an abortion
movement manifesto, suggesting that we have no right
to stand up -- as Christ commanded us -- in defense
of the least of our brothers and sisters.
"We are honoring our selves, our partners, our
families and our pregnancies with a wise decision,"
the letter stated.
That's enough to turn your stomach or rip your heart
-- or both. Sin honors no one.
What was truly reprehensible was the final poster,
the "blessing," which begins, "Let us be blessed as
we go forth. Choices have been made in some of the
hardest moments of our lives. May we leave this place
free from guilt and ready to live with conviction and
clarity of purpose." It ends, in classic prayer
style, with the single word, "Amen."
I prefer to think of this ploy as a desperation
measure by an abortion industry that knows its time
is running out.
That feeling is echoed in a message I received from
Marti in Little Rock.
"I cannot really describe the sense of relief I felt
when I arrived at 7:45 Saturday morning and found an
empty parking lot," she wrote. The abortion center
was closed.
"I just stood at the entryway of their lot and
praised God and claimed that someday this lot will
always be empty. I was standing there with the
perfect vision of what we are praying for -- days
upon days where no babies have to die in this place."
To that, we can truly say, "Amen!"
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