I want to share part of my personal testimony. Seeing as FR is anonymous (to some extent...;)), I feel like it is necessary to do so. I haven't shared this but with a few people. I don't share it publicly because I feel like it would bring embarrassment for my mother. And as the Lord commands us to “Honor your mother and father”, so I haven't shared this but with a few people.
I was born in late 64’. Abortion was still illegal and my mother went to a back-alley type of ‘doctor’ when she found out she was pregnant with me...to dispose of me. This person injected her with something that was supposed to poison me out. Whatever it was, it was supposed to guarantee my obliteration within her womb. I have no idea what it might have been. But this ‘doctor’ she had been referred to had success in other cases or she wouldn't have been referred to them. My mother got terribly sick from whatever this quack injected into her but the Lord spared my life. She said she knew while she was experiencing the effects of whatever was put into her that I “fought inside her for dear life”.
Needless to say, I was an ‘unsuccessful’ or ‘failed’ abortion. A walking miracle. But for the grace of God I wouldn't be typing this to you right now. I have no anger or resentment towards my mother for what she attempted. And obviously, God had another plan. Blessed be His name! The result is that I am vehemently against abortion/murder and am VERY aware of the anniversary date for Roe V. Wade. Had I been conceived but 10 years later from my mom's attempt, with the passage of Roe V. Wade, there is a very good chance that the abortion would have been effective. Again, I praise the Lord for sparing my life!
The 40-year-anniversay coincides closely with the next inauguration. The next 10 months will be very telling for our nation. There is an urgency to share the gospel more then ever with everything going on. For such a time as this...
Yes, and also to rescue "believers" caught up in cults and or following false teachers I've noted.
There are far fewer open to the Gospel then once known, most aren't the least bit receptive....and thus getting the "family" together and out from the places they've wandered to does seem to be the movement....and takes much greater work I've learned.
BTW ...Congradulations on being a Survior of an Abortion Attempt. I remember viewing an abortion in progress, which I can't tell you how difficult to watch, and they showed the instrument probing around and the baby withdrawaing to the back of the womb......what an eye opener that was.
Imagine the one place God designed for the safest place a baby could ever imagine being in...and it becomes a death chamber!......so ....Yes! glad you made it.... I do believe your mother when she said she could feel you fighting for your life.
When you have fought for the unborn and the child is aborted anyway, the mother and grand-mother driven to the abortion clinic by their Pastor no less.....and then two week s later the mother of the unborn is killed in an auto accident, .....well...you really never get over the loses abortion creates...and it goes beyoud the abortion clinics....the ripple affect is endless.
"....et Lux in tenebris lucet, et tenebrae eam non comprehenderunt."
You'll recognize it.