“Happy to take my chances”

This past weekend, responding to tweet string, I tweeted that “Both men & women are responsible before God for their choices. Abortion is not birth control nor is it a cure. Abortion is murder and nothing less.” One response to my tweet read, “happy to take my chances with your God, Kevin. Meanwhile I’ll make my own decisions about my fertility. Cheers” The original tweet that I responded to read, “…Abortion is the cure for an unwanted pregnancy.”

As I have read these various interactions over the weekend, I am saddened. Both of these women have not sense of the severity of their statements. They have suggested that abortion is no less than or greater than birth control.

These are just two tweets among thousands and thousands from this past week since the leaked Dobbs Supreme Court ruling.

How do we respond to these and to those around us in our lives?

Compassion, Passion, and Sadness

This lady texts, “Happy to take my chances.”

Dear fellow person in the image of God who must ultimately stand before God, you do not know what you are saying.

You, in fact, do not want to take your chances with God.

Let me suggest two passages that have come to mind related to this. Asaph asked, Why do the wicked prosper? (Psalm 73). Jeremiah asked, Why does the way of the wicked prosper? (Jer 12:1). In both instances, the biblical authors were bemoaning the fact that the wicked seemed to do what they wanted without any care for God or circumstances. Both authors thought that these enemies of righteousness could do whatever and God would  almost seemingly reward them rather than punish them.

Does it ever seem that way related to abortion? These people commit abortion, end human life, and seemingly go about living life as if it does not matter. In fact, one said, “Abortion is the cure for an unwanted pregnancy.”

Does this make you angry? How do you respond?

I suggest compassion, passion, and sadness. God tells Asaph, “Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin. How desolate they become in a mere moment. Terrifying judgments make their demise complete. They are like a dream after one wakes up. O Lord, when you awake you will despise them” (Ps 73:18-20, NET).

To Jeremiah, God says, “‘But I will completely uproot and destroy any of those nations that will not pay heed,’ says the Lord” (Jer 12:17).

God promises destruction to those who reject Him and truth.

“Happy to Take My Chances”

How could we be anything less than filled with compassion for these individuals who reject God? How can we be any less passionate than to share the Gospel with them? God’s patience only extends so far. In the end, He reigns. When all is said and done, God’s justice remains and will be accomplished. For these two women and everyone like them, how sad. We should all pray that they are reached with the Gospel. Anything else, and these people will be doomed.

As the conversation continues, let me encourage you to have compassion toward those so wrong, passion toward them hearing the Gospel, and sadness toward their eventual appointment with God’s justice without the Gospel.