Abortion does not think about the future. Seventy six million baby boomers could soon realize that the lives might become a burden because 53 million people who would have supported an aging population were aborted. That’s an economic nightmare.
But, there’s a more personal side to this nightmare. Each one of the 53 million boys and girls who have been aborted in the U.S. alone since 1973 had a name (Isaiah 43:1-2).
I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are Mine,” says the Creator and Lord God
Abortion drops a name placed upon a unique and treasured person. It is a name known by God before all eternity for all eternity. It is a name of a boy or girl who would have impacted this world in ways we’ll never know.
Abortion drops a name from a teacher’s grade book. From 4-H club or Boys Scouts or junior olympics. From schools of music, agriculture, or medicine. From the consumer index and first-time home ownership. For the tax rolls. From bonds of marriage, parenthood, and genealogies.
Abortion drops a name from baptism, confirmation, and the mission field.
There is an emptiness when a name is dropped by abortion. Women we know who have suffered the loss of an aborted child would explain this if only we’d listen. That’s because a mother knows that a child created and named by God can never be replaced.
God named each on of this nation’s 53 million aborted children. For each one He had a future and hope. Even though each would have been born into sin, God had for them a robe of righteousness because of what Jesus did on a Cross for them. Our world is less because these children are not with us. Our world suffers when people created for a purpose and called by name are considered “untimely,” “inconvenient,” or “fearful.”
But, God has also named every mother who feared her child; who failed to see her child’s future and hope; who, deceived by other voices, doubted that God is good and can be trusted in every circumstance. He calls each empty mother by name: “My daughter in Christ! Life your countenance toward Me!” He waits with open arms for each mother with a broken and repentant heart. “Turn to Me . . . acknowledge your sin . . . and I will forgive your guilt” (Psalm 32:3-5). “Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; thought they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool” (Isaiah 1:18). “Woman . . . neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no more” (John 8:11).
A woman who faces the reality of her abortion is in need of someone else whom God has named. That person is you. It is me. We are “friends.” “Comforters.” “Encouragers” on the journey from the dark valley toward “goodness and mercy” (Psalm 23).
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