Living in a society where life itself is terribly devalued, it may become sadly easy to be desensitized to all the anti-life movements around us. We are living in a culture that treats unborn children as if they are not human beings. We are living in a culture that accepts the notion of assisting people to end their own lives, as if we are the owners of our own destiny. We are immersed in a world where governmental laws restrict the amount of children a family can have in one nation and where laws legalize the murder of 'unwanted' unborn children in another nation. Our global society has accepted death as a means to everything from population control to a 'right' to freedom of choice. The sad reality in this culture of death is that the creation has rejected their Creator. So many have either denied the existence of a Creator or have rejected the value He places on each life He's created.
God's Word is crystal clear in presenting how much God loves each and every life He creates. Genesis 1:31 tells us that "God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good". Psalm 139 emphasizes that He knows each of us intimately as He creates us before we are born. John 3 shows the infinite personal extent of His love as He sacrificed His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to eternally save anyone from sin and punishment if they will only believe in His Son. Furthermore, God's Word teaches us to love and value life as He does. Matthew 19:19 states, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself".
So, knowing how much God loves us, what can we do in this dark world to value life as He does? We can spread God's love and share how much He values each life He creates. We can begin to sensitize people again to how precious life is. We can humbly thank God for loving each of us sinners, and ask Him to help us show others the love He has graciously shown us. Trusting in His guidance, we can work together to value life again in our nation and world by sharing God's love with one person at a time.
Submitted by Katie Deatherage
