Exodus, Chapter 1, Verse 17
The midwives, however, feared
God; they did not do as the king of Egypt had ordered them, but let the boys
live.
The book of Exodus
retells the story of the leaving of the children of Abraham from the land of
Egypt. God blessed Abraham’s descendants and they prospered and overpopulated
the land. Egyptians then oppressed the Israelites and took action to control
their population by commanding midwives to kill the male children born to the
Israelite’s.
Nothing ever changes it
seems the midwives, were the king of Egypt’s version of our Planned Parenthood.
Yet, they the midwives feared God more than the King and spared life. I do not
think anyone in the Planned Parenthood organization has any fear of God. The
midwives of Egypt were ordered to kill only the male children of the
Israelites. In our modern world I wonder who the equivalent of the King of
Egypt is. I wonder who or what sex and races are the equivalents of the
Israelite children?
Let us pray that those
within the Planned Parenthood organization and those who support the existence
of organizational weapons for the destruction of innocent unborn life may have
an awakening to the voice of conscience and fear God: thus preserving life
first, then liberty and then the pursuit of happiness. For is not life more, precious
than liberty; and is not liberty more precious than the pursuit of wealth. It
can be in no other order. As a people and as a nation we have dulled our
consciences for too long; this is why the soul of this nation can find no
peace. We like the midwives of ancient Egypt must fear God more than Pharaoh. Then and only then will our
consciences as a people become unsullied and we will have the strength, courage
and loyalty to follow what is right.
Yes, if we as a people
see Christ in the unborn as Paul seen Him at his conversion we shall again be a
bless nation.
Feast of the conversion of St. Paul[1]
Sometime after the death of Our Lord, St. Paul returned to Palestine. His profound conviction made his zeal develop to a religious fanaticism against the infant Church. He took part in the stoning of the first martyr, St. Stephen, and in the fierce persecution of the Christians that followed. Entrusted with a formal mission from the high priest, he departed for Damascus to arrest the Christians there and bring them bound to Jerusalem. As he was nearing Damascus, about noon, a light from heaven suddenly blazed round him. Jesus with His glorified body appeared to him and addressed him, turning him away from his apparently successful career. An immediate transformation was wrought in the soul of St. Paul. He was suddenly converted to the Christian Faith. He was baptized, changed his name from Saul to Paul, and began travelling and preaching the Faith. He was martyred as an Apostle in Rome around 65 AD.
What do we learn from this history?[2]
Not to despise any sinner, nor to despair of his salvation: for, like Paul on the
road to Damascus, the greatest sinner may, by the grace of God, be suddenly converted,
and become a saint. At the command of God he accepted Ananias as his leader in the
way of salvation, and became as zealous for the honor of Christ as he had previously
been intent on persecuting Him. In like manner, a convert must shut his eyes to
all by which he has heretofore been led astray, and must give heed to that only
which God commands.
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