Isaiah, Chapter 54, verse 4:
4 Do not fear, you shall not be put to shame; do
not be discouraged, you shall not be disgraced. For the shame of your youth you
shall forget, the reproach of your widowhood no longer remember.
Isaiah
here is speaking of the Eternal Covenant of Peace from God. Our shame was that we as a people by our transgressions
killed Christ, who was the messiah and our spiritual spouse, thus becoming
widows, as a people. Isaiah tells us in
advance that God in his love will no longer remember our reproaches. He will make us free, He will give us peace.
The next verse of Isaiah makes this clear, “For your husband is
your Maker; the LORD of hosts is his
name, Your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, called God of all the
earth.”
Today the Holy Roman Catholic Church is calling for a day of prayer for the legal protection of unborn children. Does our nation not realize that if we are the spouse of the God of all the earth, that we are committing murder of God’s own spiritual children through the legalization of abortion?
Our Holy Father states that peace can only come when we confront
the truth.[1]
Jesus declared “I am the truth” (John 14: 6) and told Pontius Pilate “For
this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth”
(John 18: 37). Because he is the Son of God, Jesus is the truth about who God
is, and, because he is fully human, he is the truth about the human person.
What is that truth? First, that God is Love, love that is willing to give
all, even life itself, for the good of the beloved. Second, that the human
person is precious to God, precious enough to die for.
When this truth is denied, the human person becomes subhuman, an object,
or a threat. It becomes easy to destroy a mass of cells viewed as a threat. The
human person may seem like a cancer on humanity and be treated as such, rather
than as an individual for whom Jesus suffered and died.
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