An Incredible Evil

S~ They have built pagan shrines to Baal in the valley of Ben-Hinnom, and there they sacrifice their sons and daughters to Molech. I have never commanded such a horrible deed; it never even crossed my mind to command such a thing. What an incredible evil, causing Judah to sin so greatly! Jeremiah 32:35

O ~ Sometimes we can think God was so harsh in the Old Testament - allowing His people to be captured and executed, and suffer terrible. Yet, it's verses like these, that give us some insight to the horrors that were being done to His people, by His people!  They themselves were involved in child sacrifice. It wasn't the enemy killing their children, but they were so depraved they were doing that themselves. The deepest sacrifice they could make, they were making to demonic gods. Child sacrifice NEVER crossed God's mind. Even in the light of Abraham and Isaac, we see that there was no way He would let that take place.

A ~ Abortion is still such a sorrow - as so many choose this to end the life of their child. I don't begin to comprehend what a struggle it must be to make that choice, or the pain and suffering after it is committed. The guilt and shame and forever weight that it carries. And yet it breaks the heart of the Father - the One who would never have this enter His mind. May I be a voice of choice, to choose life for both mother and child.

P ~ Lord, in our broken land, God heal our land. In broken lives, God heal our lives. May the conscience of a nation be changed, and we choose life.