One thing about my Church we have been around the block with the Marxists, anyway about a week ago I was reading Scripture and the question was raised about Civil Disobedience meaning that there are times when you simply have to disobey the Civil Authorities. In my humble opinion this is one of them. What happens if medical personnel refuse to perform an abortion?
One thing about my Church we have been around the block with the Marxists, anyway about a week ago I was reading Scripture and the question was raised about Civil Disobedience meaning that there are times when you simply have to disobey the Civil Authorities. In my humble opinion this is one of them. What happens if medical personnel refuse to perform an abortion?
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I think we’re about to see some serious persecution of Christians in this country. I never thought that COULD happen ,at least, not in my lifetime anyway.
It got me to thinking...
The government, Obama and all the “high places” where nations rise or fall, can deny the people much. They can burden us with immoral legislation and leadership. They can sell us into economic slavery. They can try to remove God from everything that WAS and IS America, but in the end the personal decision is ours. God made us free. We can each choose to live that freedom every day. Only God,himself, has the REAL power that comes not from wielding a fist, but from transforming the hearts, and minds of men! Come what may, no one can take away our liberty to choose to make the best of ANY circumstance.
This reminds me of Viktor Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search for Meaning”. It’s a painfully human account of his experiences living in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. What is so remarkable to me about this man is that life handed him the worst case scenario. Frankl not only survived to tell the story, but he rose above and became better because of the experience. He stands as a shining example to all of us as we watch our freedoms torn away little by little day by day. Much can be learned from him about how to handle difficulties.
Check out some of Frankl’s quotes and the contrast between his and the thinking of the new administration in D.C.
-“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one’s attitudes”
-“Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.”
-“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.”
-”Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.”
-“When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”
-“What is to give light must endure burning.”
-“Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”
-“Those who have a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how.’”