thinking-out-loud: If Our Children Live to See the Future
thinking-out-loud: If Our Children Live to See the Future
In his rhetorical remarks regarding Ann Nixon Cooper, the 106-year-old woman in Atlanta who voted on Tuesday, the president-elect offered this consideration: “If our children live to see the next century . . . what changes will they see?” That is a provocative question, especially posed by a man who condones and advocates the murder of unborn children; who has said that he would not want his daughter to be “punished” with a child, if she were found to be pregnant out of wedlock. Such positions are ironic in the case of a man who was himself conceived outside of wedlock, but of course that was prior to the legitimizing of abortion in this country. For all the fear of “back alley butchers,” perhaps the laws against abortion actually helped to spare the life of the man now elected to the highest office in our land. Not only Ann Nixon Cooper but Barack Obama himself has lived to see a future, which is now, when it is permissable to put our children to death. “If our children live to see the next century,” indeed.
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If our children live to see the future, what changes will they see? “Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears; for your work will be rewarded,” declares the Lord. “There is hope for your future, and your children will return to their own territory.” That was the sure and certain promise of the Lord to Israel, in the face of Babylonian captivity. It is His sure and certain promise to us, all the moreso, perfectly fulfilled in the Person and work of His beloved Son. When the vile and viscious King Herod put the sword to all the infant boys of Bethlehem, his hand was prevented from touching the Christ-Child with His Mother. Not Herod but the Lord would strike down His Son, the Shepherd for His flock, that He might gather His lost and wandering sheep from the four winds, from every nation, tribe and tongue, unto Himself in safety, peace and rest. His innocent blood shed for us is our forgiveness and our life; the promise is for us and for our children, and for a people yet unborn.
Change and decay in all around I see. O Thou who changest not, abide with me.
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