“Open your mouth for the speechless,
In the cause of all who are appointed to die.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy.”
(Proverbs 31: 8-9)
Holy God, How great is Your love for each of us. Thank You for making us in Your own image. Keep us mindful of the needs of all people-—especially those with no voice to speak for themselves. We bring unborn babies to You and ask You to wrap Your arms of love around them. Protect them from the horrors and pain of abortion and place Your beautiful love in the hearts of every parent. In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.
26 From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live.
27 God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’
29 Therefore since we are God's offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man's design and skill.
30 In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.
31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.
O Father, may it be that when judgment comes upon the world, we will be found to have repented of our slaughter of the innocents, for we will have acknowledged You as the Author of Life. May that repentance come upon us this day, O Lord ... even this very day. Amen ...