Posted on 07/22/2009 12:49:25 PM PDT by Patriot1259
Has it really been forty-two years since I killed my baby? It seems like only last week. I remember what my girlfriend wore when I drove her to the clinic, where I parked and how many dimes I dropped into the meter.
I was seventeen. My girlfriend was eighteen. Too young – I told myself – for the responsibility of raising a child.
After the abortion, my life didn’t get any better. Sexual immorality, drug abuse, blasphemy, drunkenness, deception . . . . I added a lot of weight to my sin of premeditated, callous killing of my unborn baby.
But when I was twenty-two, I stumbled upon a wonderful, glorious, nearly incomprehensible truth: God looked beyond my sins and saw my desperate need. And so He sent His only begotten Son to free me.
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That’s a heavy cross to bare - so grateful we have someone who offers to carry it for us...
Nice to hear this from the Father’s POV.
Excellent post!
The Apostle Paul, before as Saul also was a notorious murderer. He went about killing an torturing the first Christians and trying to force them to recant.
Both confessed their sin and both recieved the same forgiveness through the Lord.
The Lord Jesus Christ can make the foulest clean. There is no sin that Christ can not wash clean. The only one He can't is to not Believe upon Him as the final sin bearer.
Call upon the Name of the Lord today, and be freed!
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