'removing' God

sometimes happenings in the USA make me want to pull out my hair. we've removed God because we tiny little dots on huge planet Earth think we know better.

example 1: America has decided that abortion is a 'woman's right to choice;' the baby inside is labeled a 'piece of tissue.'

BUT this is the news i saw a few weeks ago: a man was upset at his girlfriend, who was pregnant, and he shot her, 'killing her and the unborn BABY.'

yep, the news reporter said BABY.

can't everyone just admit that we all know it's a BABY??? it's not a clump of nameless, formless, unimportant tissue. it's a living, moving, feeding, feeling human being.

ridiculous how it's a BABY if someone shoots it or if it's killed in a car accident, but it's an 'unwanted pregnancy' or a 'fetus' (sounds like an alien) if a mother wants to get an abortion. 

how can it be murder in one instance, but the woman's right to choose in another???

bottom line: when we remove GOD from creation and make laws based on what's convenient or what gives us immediate gratification, we start to contradict ourselves. our 'truth' changes according to the mood we're in and we lose our ability to make sense.

the life inside a mother is a baby from the first moment to the time it's born. labeling it a 'piece of tissue' so that you can rationalize killing is wrong. somewhere inside, everyone knows this, which is why everyone's gut reaction to an unborn baby being killed is horror and sadness and anger.

it can't be a baby worth saving in one circumstance and a fetus that grew like a tumor in another.... 

example 2: here's another piece of news i heard a couple of weeks ago: a boy and girl in high school went to prom together. afterwards, he took her home and drove himself home. after she'd changed or something, she drove herself over to his house, where they had sex. the news reported that the 'rapist' was now in jail facing charges because of the poor 'victim' who was taken advantage of on prom night. 

WHAT??! come on! she drove herself over there!

the fine line was that she was 17, and he probably happened to be 18. so suddenly she is an underaged 'victim' and he's an adult 'rapist.' ridiculous. she is responsible too.

bottom line: when we remove GOD from our lives and replace HIS VALUES with arbitrary laws, nothing makes sense. if the girl had turned 18 five minutes before they had sex, they'd be 'two consenting adults.' nonsense.

the real problem is that people want to have sex when they want to have sex, regardless of marriage. once you remove sex from the confines of marriage, anything goes. but we still realize that we need SOME sort of boundaries, so someone came up with an arbitrary age. but by making it arbitrary, they have removed the REASON BEHIND the rule.

let me tangent on this a bit...

the reason for sex being in the confines of marriage is that God meant it to be the most meaningful way of sharing yourself completely with another human being. it's a way of showing your commitment, a way of distinguishing this special person from anyone else on the planet. 

ultimately, marriage is the picture of how intimate and personal our commitment is supposed to be to Jesus. in light of this, sex in marriage is one of the most beautiful and amazing parts of life.

outside of marriage, sex is one of the most cheapening, hurtful, meaningless, and sad things you can do with your body.

same with the commitment of our souls. committing your life and soul to Jesus is the most meaningful and freeing and awesome thing you can do. on the flipside, committing your soul to anything else in the world (money, yourself, success, your loved ones...) leads to meaninglessness, to living a totally unfulfilled life, and to spiritual death.

removing God removes all reason.

you may think you have eliminated God from your life, but just because you've denied His existence or decided He doesn't matter, doesn't mean He ceases to exist. and it doesn't mean that you are not accountable to Him.

"'As surely as I live,' says the Lord,

'every knee will bow before Me;

every tongue will confess to God.'

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God."

Romans 14:11-12

be careful of the decisions you make. 

are you rationalizing away what's right so that you can be more comfortable?? 

are you forfeiting your sense and reason because you refuse to make a stand for truth? 

are you being careless and wishy-washy with your beliefs because your friends think they're stupid?

where is your allegiance? Jesus said this to those who thought they had it all together:

"You belong to your father, the devil,

and you want to carry out your father's desire.

He was a murderer from the beginning,

not holding to the truth, 

for there is no truth in him.

When he lies, he speaks his native language,

for he is a liar and the father of lies.

He who belongs to God hears what God says. 

The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God."

John 8:44, 47