"While You Are Sleeping"

Isn't it interesting that we always close our eyes before we sleep?

It is probably not something you have thought about in this way.

As I heard the horrifying news that 'Planned Parenthood' is taking aborted babies', 'parts'
and selling them to be used for further research,
I was aghast!

They are selling babies 'parts'just after the abortion. These little bits and pieces
including their tiny little organs, are being sold for research. 

How did we come to this place?

Unimaginable atrocities are occurring at every level in an ever increasing number.

What was once, unthinkable is now idle chit chat over lunch.

One person recently commented that 'our parents were asleep' as our country began this drift toward the once unimaginable!

But I fear, that we too have closed our eyes and drifted into a bliss filled ignorance. 

We can no longer blame anyone else.

As anger rises and tears fill my 

eyes, I know it is past time.

We must pick up the dialogue and be ever so willing to talk about it.

For just below a mother's heart lays a sanctuary for her little one. 

And just beyond this...

protected and hallowed spot
lays a sharp instrument coming for our children.

It is designed to 'kill, steal and destroy.' (John 10:10)

'Oh the inhumanity!'

WE MUST NOT ignore the retching pain of an innocent baby being severed at the spine and ripped from the haven of mommy's womb.

How long before we open our eyes to the reality that these precious babies are facing?

They cannot speak.

But we can!

We can rise up and say, ENOUGH!?!

A friend sent me this.

"I met an 81 year old woman who was born at 21 weeks gestation. She had weighed 1.5 lbs at birth. She had zero health issues even into her 80s. She was the healthiest blob of tissue I had ever met. SAVE THE BABIES!!!!!"

If you are reading this, then your eyes are no longer closed. You are indeed AWAKE.

Start praying and start talking about it... 

Rise up Nation under God!

Tell me.

What WILL you do?

There will come a day that we will each be held accountable for what we did and didn't do!

It is too late for many but not too late for the next one.

Please share this video to start.

Senator James Lankford speaks publicly before the senate and before our president.

http://youtu.be/7bYeLo0fASU

Blissful, sleepy ignorance should never be an option.

Part Two: 'I Have One Vote'

When you hold The Bible as your truth and as your standard for the way you live, then you will be willing to grow through the shadowy places, life takes you.
The Word of God when rightly divded (or studied and understood) will set you on an adventure of a lifetime. We are each in the middle of this great adventure, and it is exciting to know He is always willing to meet us right where we are, regardless of our past.

I sometimes wonder how we begin to change.
I wonder when we first realized, that the great and yet personal God of the Universe wanted to speak to us personally.
I think it starts with a subtle shift in our thoughts.

When 'something' we never considered before rises to the surface. We begin to see from a different and possibly deeper perspective.

I think this is what happened with Psalm 139. I have always read this scripture to understand the importance of life . That hasn't changed.
Life is God's creation.
It has never been something we could sustain, except for His touch.

And so, with Psalm 139 came a greater understanding and responsibility.

When you were nothing but a thought in someones mind, before your mother realized she was pregnant, you were still very much on God's timeline.
His Creation.
His Touch.
Psalm 139, insists,.. that you were not some random moment that could or should be stolen away.

When I read through this Psalm the other day, even though it is written as a Psalm of David , I took the perspective of a tiny baby in the womb speaking to the Heavenly Father.

The conversation between verses 1-12 is comforting and warm. (please be active, pick up your Bible and read them..His Word will set you free, keep your Bible open...so you can read further, as we dig a little deeper)

Then the conversation in verses 13-18 becomes very soothing....
To think these very words could have been spoken by 'us', as tiny babes, from this haven is humbling, and daunting at the same time.
Imagine yourself speaking to your Father in heaven, in the safety of the womb.
You are innocent,
You are alive,
You are loved....as you speak softly with the One who created you..

13 For you created my inmost being;
    you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
    your works are wonderful,
    I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
    when I was made in the secret place,
    when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
    all the days ordained for me were written in your book
    before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts, God!
    How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
    they would outnumber the grains of sand—
    when I awake, I am still with you.

When I read this scripture, it only reaffirmed what I already knew, and what you should know when and if you hold the Holy Scripture as your standard by which you measure Truth.

So, back to your Bible, (take a moment to read verses 19-22)  
I had to wonder if these bloodthirsty men referred to, were indeed those who have 'no regard' for life.

Should we then,..be held responsible and rightly be compelled to hold life in the highest regard beyond all other motivations, especially in the political arena??
      Absolutely...you have a voice and you have one vote..

The touch of life..has been ordained by God, since before time began. We do not define 'life' !! 
Only the One who created it,..can cast the meaning. 
God, the Creator of Life sees our value, when no one else knew we existed...
In the womb.
He sees and He loves.
Have we become so blind by the politics, that we are willing to sacrifice those without a voice,

Will their innocent blood be upon our heads when we go to the polls?

I am fully aware that this issue of life strikes each of us to the very core. 
And it should strike at our beating hearts...
For each of us reading these thoughts are alive today, because no one stole away our right to live.

23Search me, God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
    and lead me in the way everlasting.

What standard are you using to figure out who you are and why you believe what you believe ?? Never allow yourself to fall into complacency.

IF you are using the Holy Scriptures, then a new light WILL begin to shine on your political leanings...

"Be diligent to present yourself approved to God as a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately handling the word of truth."

2 Timothy 2:15

As we read the last of the verses in this scripture, we are not left without hope...for in the end..it is our plea our whole life through to lead a life,...seeking the everlasting way...
He is always willing to meet us right where we are, regardless of our past.

Yet again, may re remember...
'Their decisions...... and our decision to vote for them,...will be upon us,...
when we stand humbly at the judgement seat of Christ. We will be held responsible for our one vote.'