The Cry of Life

Hello everyone! Yes once again I created another blog. Originally, I wanted to write on Blog Shot of Truth, but I had some difficulties, so I created a new blog. I have named the new blog, "Shooting It Straight," and on this blog I shoot it straight. I am a Christian, a husband, a Minister of Students and Music, and a Southern Seminary student. That's a little about me, but let me move onto what I came to write about.

"The Cry of Life"

I am a performer, a person with a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Theatre, a person who tries to be a perfectionist, a person who has sat in weddings, funerals, worship services, conferences, classes, movies, plays, and other performances, and I have heard children, babies specifically cry ever so loudly in this events. I love children, so don't get me wrong when I say my next statement. When I hear those babies cry I think to myself and say out loud sometimes, "Man, they need to shut that kid up!" That sounds harsh to some, but the fact is in professional settings the parents need to be mindful of the performers, speakers, and other listeners. We need to maintain a sense of professionalism. Parents need to be responsible enough to politely excuse themselves and their children. Again, I love children, but I try to be professional at events, performances, etc. However, I did learn something the other day from a situation where a couple of babies were crying at an event. Let me paint a picture: I am sitting at an event, listening to others perform, when out of nowhere came a chorus of babies crying. I thought my usual thought of wishing the parents would either hush their children or politely leave. I wasn't ready for the next thing that happened. God, through His Holy Spirit, spoke to me and used this as a teaching moment. I began to think of all of the unborn babies whose lives have been taken by abortion. At that moment a profound thought hit me. I would much rather hear the cries of living babies, whose parents chose to keep them and let them live, than to hear the silence of the unborn babies who were murdered by abortions. In this event, that very thought almost brought me to tears. Even though a crying baby can seemingly distract us, wouldn't you rather be distracted by the crying of that gift of God, than to have the silence where we have murder those precious gifts of God? The Bible has many passages about the wonderful blessing that children are. (Psalms 127.3-5; Proverbs 17.6) The Bible also talks in Jeremiah of how even before babies are formed, God knows them. "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1.5) He is speaking to Jeremiah, but we can gain from the principle that before we were formed God knew us and had a purpose for us. The same is true of every life. A life is present at conception, and that life is made in the image of God, and should not be snuffed out because that person is deemed unwanted, unnecessary, useless, and burdensome. Every life has a purpose, and that purpose is decided by God, not by mankind. We are to value life, born or unborn, as God values life. So I say, "Let the cry of babies represent the cry of life, and let us not silence unborn life anymore, but rise up to stand against and pray against the horrible murders of unborn babies across the world. Christians rise up and take a stand against abortion, so that we may no longer hear the silence of the unborn, but hear the cry of the living, the cry of life which is from the Lord."