The Murder Of Innocents - Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, but plainly on all these things. - Jeremiah 2:34

    Anyone who has ever read any of my posts knows that I seldom mince words. I would like to attribute that trait to my age. Unfortunately, I would be misleading you if I tried to impress that upon you. Still, the truth remains the truth, and from it, I will not wander. It seems as if the biggest cry from the secular progressives today is that it is wrong to deport a child but it is perfectly fine to abort one. The convolutions of atheist extremism continue.  I say “atheist extremism” because you cannot believe in the holy God of the Bible and support abortion or even the right to choose one!
    The shedding of innocent blood remains a sin against which God’s holy wrath will not be withheld. “These six things the Lord hates, yes, seven are an abomination to Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood . . . .”- Proverbs 6:16-17. To one who has decided he or she holds the right to destroy human life, let them be cautious in both their discernment and action: God has already spoken twice on the issue of murder; He will not speak again. “You shall not murder.” - Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17.
    Innocent blood. How much more innocent can the blood of an unborn child be? A child conceived by intention, accident, or crime is still innocent blood and no man or woman has the right to shed its blood! A human life is not about convenience or expediency; it is about God’s will. And to violate or transgress God’s will is a sin. “Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” - James 4:17.
    Not only have we decided to commit this atrocious act, we no longer even hide the fact. We point to a horribly and erroneously contrived Constitutional “right” to murder our own flesh and blood and insist that our courts, judges, hospitals, clinics, doctors, and nurses become accomplices in our sins. A Constitutional right? To murder?!
    As fallible human beings, we cannot devise or imagine what is right in our own hearts. There is but one standard of righteousness and it is God’s. “For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, nor shall evil dwell with You.” - Psalm 5:4. The standard for holiness is God’s and God’s alone. He will not share His throne with mankind.
    And what of those who have committed the heinous act of shedding innocent blood? Because God is a God of holiness, wrath, love, and mercy, He is faithful to forgive us our transgressions if we repent and turn from our sins. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” - 1 John 1:9. Our good and gracious God is always willing to forgive us and longs for us to return to Him in humility and contriteness. “‘Now, therefore,’ says the Lord, ‘Turn to Me with all your heart, with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.’” - Joel 2:12. We can be forgiven for the things we have done wrong. For while the wages of sin is death, there is no automatic death sentence for sin if we but repent. “Repent therefore and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” - Acts 3:19. But with the promise of forgiveness also comes the warning - “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” - John 8:24.
    When we come to our senses about the terrible sin of infanticide and seek humble submission to the Lord let our words echo those of Israel - “We lie down in our shame, and our reproach covers us. For we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.” - Jeremiah 3:25.
    The murder of innocents must stop in our lifetime. Let us pray for the will of God to rule in our hearts.