And for your lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting from every animal. And from each man, too, I will demand an accounting for the life of his fellow man.
"Whoever sheds the blood of man,by man shall his blood be shed; For in the image of God has God made man.
GENESIS 9:5-6
God is the creator and sustainer of all life.
As the creator, all (Man, animal, nature, systems)are under obligation to obey God.
Our civil governments are under the authority of God.
Our civil governments have been given the authority by God to protect the citizens and to punish crimes.
One of the ten commandments given to us by God is "Thou shalt not murder".
No one has the right to take another life (except in self-defense).
Our civil governments should punish people who take another's life.
When our civil governments encourage this behavior rather than deter it, they are acting outside the will of God.
When our civil governments fail to uphold their delegated authority positions as protectors of life, they will be held accountable by the God who gave them the standard to uphold.
When our civil governments govern based on their own set of standards and not the standards set by the Creator, it does not mean that the Creator is no longer in control.
The Creator sees.
Just as a citizen is punished for breaking the standard of the legal law, so can a lawgiver acting outside the standard set by God by enacting laws that harm human life also expect to be held accountable and punished.
Our civil government officials must answer to God, the Creator, for the laws they have passed legalizing abortion and/or physician assisted suicide.
We, the people, who voted for and chose these men and women as our leaders and have allowed them, and sometimes even encouraged them, to make such laws will be held accountable as well.
We must pray that we, on an individual level, will see the error of our ways and have a change of heart. We must seek God's will, not our own, in all areas of our life. We must raise our children to be God-fearing and teach them to submit to the authority of God.
We must pray that our elected officials see the light and become active once again in upholding the standards of God and begin by removing laws from the books that are in direct contradiction to those standards.
We must pray for new leaders to emerge who are God-fearing and understand the relationship of God as the ultimate authority and that all of life must fall on bended knee before Him.
We must pray that the people will vote for God-fearing men and women and pray for our officials to make wise decisions and properly execute the position of their office.
Our nation must change our rebellious, prideful, and selfish ways. We must strive for personal self-control and let the civil government get back to protecting the people instead of bending to our every whim and desire and allowing us to rebel against our Creator.
Yes, we can blame the politicians, and rightfully so, but we must also blame the culture we have created. The culture of wanting the government to tell us what to do instead of God. The culture of wanting the government to allow us to do the things we instinctively know are wrong. The culture of wanting the government to accept anything as okay and allowing the morality line to shift with the wind.
We must take a stand and say no more to this culture and the rebellion we have created!
We must remember who created us, who gave us life, who sustains us today.
We must rightfully step back and acknowledge we are not in charge and humbly look to our Father for guidance.
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