Time for a Re-Declaration

We are entering a time where the familiar words of Isaiah’s prophecy begin to be recited once again. We know the words all too well. But what if Mary had been chosen by God in our time? What if the angels visited the livestock herders in our day and age?

 I think the probability of Mary carrying baby Jesus to full term would have been very unlikely. The voices surrounding her would have put pressure on her to kill the baby. Her life would be ruined by this child’s birth, they would say, so do yourself a favor and get an abortion.

Although that might make for a nice Planned Parenthood style Christmas…it is in stark contrast to the true preciousness of the life of all babies, most definitely, baby Jesus’.

Our country began with the notion that life is a sacred right. It is a non-negotiable. It is an unalienable right which means that it is a right that you can never be alienated from, or separated from. It cannot be taken away from any person.

So to legitimize the taking away of such an important and foundational right, if a certain group would be declared non-human or not a person, say maybe simply a “fetus” or a “tissue mass” then it would be more acceptable. Which is precisely what we have done to the unborn in our nation. We have reclassified the unborn child as sub-human. Therefore, the Creator’s unalienable right to life hasn’t been granted to it, or so the logic goes.

I think it is high time, most especially at Christmastime, that we recognize what we are celebrating. We are celebrating the most important BIRTH of all time. The BIRTH of baby Jesus. That baby’s life was just as precious in the womb (by the way, doctor Luke recognized the unborn child as a legitimate life as well: Luke 1:41-44) as outside of it.

We need to Re-Declare as a nation that all life is precious to God. The most safe and sacred place on this planet for a life should be a mother’s womb. But 1500 baby deaths every day make it worse than any war our nation is currently fighting. Our God-given right to life is what our nation’s founders were willing to fight and die for.

Hear again the words from our country’s beginning:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

And hear again the words of our faith’s beginning:

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given…” (Isaiah 9:6 – KJV)