Readings for today: Psalms 131, 138, 139, 143, 144, 145
God is a god of the living not the dead. He is the Author and Creator of life. He is the Breath of Life. He is the Bread of Life. He is the Water of Life. He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. He is the Resurrection and the Life. His is the gift of Eternal Life. He sustains all life. He upholds all life. He is the giver of all life. He was there at life’s beginning and He will be there at life’s end. He conceives life and He concludes life. He alone knows the number of our days. He measured them out for us before time began. He shaped and formed us in the darkness of our mother’s womb for darkness is not dark to Him and nothing is hidden from His sight. His Spirit is always with us whether we ascend to heaven or descend into the depths of the earth. There is nowhere we can go to escape His presence.
This is what it means to be “pro-life.” It means we are for life from conception to our last breath. We stand against death. We treat him as an enemy. It doesn’t matter whether he is state-sanctioned or not. It doesn’t matter if he has been written into public policy or not. We refuse to bow the knee to him for he is our most ancient enemy. Abortion. Euthanasia. Death penalty. War. Violence. Famine. Disease. Poverty. Anything that would seek to steal life, we set ourselves against as followers of Jesus. He is the Alpha and Omega. The Beginning and End. The First and Last. In Him was life and that life was the light of all humankind and we are called to take His light, the light of life, to the world.
Readings for tomorrow: 1 Chronicles 27-29, Psalms 68