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Poor Richard Mourdock, candidate for Senate here in my home state of Indiana.  Poor guy.  He actually had the audacity to assert that God is the sovereign giver of life.

In a debate, a question was asked about abortion in the case of rape.  Mourdock basically said that even in those cases, the life of that child was something God intended.  His opponents immediately began twisting his words to try and make it seem like Mourdock said God endorses rape.  (No surprises there, since nearly all politicians on both sides of the aisle are eager to twist their opponents' words for their own gain.)  Mourdock has since clarified, however, that he did indeed mean only that God is the sovereign giver of life.  Apparently Richard reads His Bible!

Job said of his own personal suffering and calamity, "The hand of the Lord has done this, in whose hand is the life of every living thing" (Job 12:9).

God told His Prophet named Jeremiah, "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you" (Jer 1:5).

The Psalmist sang of God, "You formed my inward parts; You wove me together in my mother's womb . . . Your eyes have seen my unformed substance, and in Your book were all written the days that were ordained for me when as yet not one of them was" (Ps 139:13, 16).

James wrote that we should pray, "If the Lord wills, we will live" (Jms 4:15).

Jesus said not a single sparrow falls to the ground apart from the sovereign will and notice of God (Matt 10:29).

We could continue this exercise for a long, long time!  The Word of God is clear that God is indeed the One and Only Giver of Life.  No person has ever been conceived apart from the life-giving power of God.  There are no "accidental" babies or people.  This does not mean that God endorses every single circumstance surrounding every single human conception / birth.  But what it does mean is that God's gift of life is just that - a gift to be treasured regardless of the circumstances of conception (of which the baby is innocent, by the way).

Psalm 127 exclaims, "Children are a gift of the Lord!"  It does not say that some children are gifts from God, while others are not.  Nor does it say only children conceived under perfect and ideal circumstances are a gift from God.  Nor does it say only children who are conceived by parents who can "afford" to have them are a gift.  Nor does it say only children who are "wanted" by their birth parents are a gift.  Nor does it say only children who are perfectly healthy are gifts from God.  IT SAYS CHILDREN ARE A GIFT OF THE LORD.  PERIOD.

Now, this may not, indeed most likely will not get anyone elected to political office in our evil day and age.  But it has always been and shall always be the truth!  It does not matter whether Mitt Romney says he does not endorse this theology.  It does not matter if our President continues to cry out that women have a "right" to murder a baby simply because of the sin of the baby's parents.  God has spoken.  He is the Giver of Life.  Only He has sovereign rights over life.

His sovereignty repels sinners until out of that same kingly power God chooses to give those sinners new hearts.  Then, all of a sudden, nothing is sweeter to those sinners' ears than the sound of the Lion of Judah roaring and calling them to Himself by name!

"They will walk after the Lord.  He will roar like a lion; Indeed He will roar and His children will come trembling from the west" (Hosea 11:10).

"Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus" (Rev 22:20).

by Keith McWhorter