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To: Salvation; MountainFlower

Bump for life!


137 posted on 04/02/2009 9:08:24 AM PDT by Faith
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To: Faith
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DAY 38 INTENTION
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We pray for the conversion of all those who refuse to acknowledge that human life belongs only to God.

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SCRIPTURE
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Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations."

-- Jeremiah 1:4-5

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REFLECTION by Rev. J. Kirk van der Swaagh
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To be or not to be?

There is no question!

The question of "being" is something philosophers have long pondered.

What is the meaning of being and what is the source? In the passage before us, we have our answer.

We have being because we are known by God.

For God to declare that he knows and sets apart the prophet Jeremiah even before he is conceived indicates that our being rests in God's own being.

Because He is and because He wills we, therefore, are and do.

The Apostle Paul says as much when he declares before the philosophers of his day, "In Him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28).

One of the tragedies of the abortion culture is that life in the womb has been so heartbreakingly devalued.

To embrace the arguments of the "pro-choice" crowd one must conclude that the child in the womb doesn't exist, isn't there, has no being.

But nothing could be further from the truth.

That child is known by God and, as such, has being.

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PRAYER
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Lord God, we confess that in You we live and move and have our being.

Because You are, we are.

May we find grace from You to affirm the being of every human and may we labor to make this truth known to the world around us. Amen.

138 posted on 04/02/2009 9:20:20 PM PDT by MountainFlower (There but by the grace of God go I.)
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