Posted on 03/16/2009 7:15:18 AM PDT by Faith
40 Days for Life consists of 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion,
40 days of constant, peaceful vigil outside abortion centers and Planned Parenthood offices
and 40 days of active pro-life community outreach.
Your community may be participating in this prayerful vigil.
If so, please join others in your area
or unite with thousands across America
during the 40 days of Lent
in praying for an end to abortion in this nation.
We pray for humility in our work for God's Kingdom.
SCRIPTURE
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
And being found in appearance as a man, He hu mbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
-- Philippians 2:5-8
REFLECTION by Ernest Ohlhoff, National Right to Life
There is no limit to what we can accomplish when we don't care who gets the credit.
Jesus Christ's life on earth exemplifies a total submission to the will of the Father. His humility, compassion, gentleness and thoughtfulness are reflected over and over again in the New Testament.
He was God incarnate, yet He chose to be born to a humble, working class home.
How absurd it must have seemed to the rich and powerful that the Son of God, the Messiah, the one foretold by the prophets, the 'King of the Jews' was born and raised as a simple peasant.
During His thirty-three years on earth, He sought no riches, claimed no secular power and gathered no possessions.
His short time on earth changed more lives, softened more hearts, and gave hope to more people, than all the rich and powerful human 'kings' combined.
And, at the end of His life on earth, by dying on the cross, He opened the door to eternal life for those who heed his words and follow in his footsteps.
PRAYER
O Lord, help us follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
Let us humbly and diligently work to restore legal protection for the unborn, the disabled, the medically dependent and all innocent children of God whose lives are threatened.
Let us remember the old adage that "He can never lead who has not first learned to obey."
And, Lord, grant us a peaceful heart as we labor in your name, Amen.
So often we get lost in our busyness and fail to hear Your call to focus on those things of eternal importance. Protecting life is dear to Your heart. Make it dear to ours as well. We pray this in the Name of Jesus Christ, Who came to give life to all. Amen.
You were like 0 for 4 there. I can’t remember the last time I read so many breathless inanities in a single paragraph.
Well maybe if I had lived in the 1800s. I bet I could have found a similar series of callow untruths in the papers then.
Something like: “Slavery is not going away. William Wilberforce should have been a slave. The world would have been better if he had been a slave. Religious arguments don’t apply to the law.”
Prayer Bump!
'Out of the Depths have I Cried to Thee, O Lord.
Lord, Hear my Voice:
Let Thine Ears be Attentive
To the Voice of my Supplications.' (Ps.130:1)
Amen
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