His Presence Is Grace

But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety.

1 Timothy 2:15

The Lord, in his infinite mercy, is always looking for a way to help us come back to him…the problem is that we don’t understand him and his ways, because the truth is that the majority of us simply do not read the bible. 

We take what we hear and believe it, without seeking YHWH. We believe in who culture tells us God is…

The reality is that we are SO misguided by who YHWH is, and his goodness that we don’t fully understand that he is always good, and in his goodness, doing things to bring us back to him. 

Today, we are going to be talking about, abortion – and as you can see from the verse above childbearing, and the things that come from it…how the Lord uses this to save women.

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When I read the passage above, it caused me to stop and think.  To reflect on my own life, and how having children has saved my life, but more than anything to really realize the TRUTH of the character of the Lord.

Today’s culture tells women that pregnancy, children and childbirth are expendable.

That these things are not that important, and that there is something more important that we should be doing. There is a strong disconnect between what some women believe and the truth that the Lord says, and what he does for us. 

In today’s abortion culture, women are made to believe that an abortion is not a big deal. Not so. It’s a great big deal. Not only do women sin against themselves when they have abortions, but most importantly they sin against the Lord, who as we can see from the passage above, gives some women children, to save them.

Culture. LOUD culture tells women, especially young women, that there is something wrong with being a wife and mother. That they should be doing something else more important with their time other than having and taking care of children…the Lord, as you see, has other ideas.  

Culture tells women that they have so many things to do, and that they should be out there, “securing the bag”, and that their biggest goals should be the one of being baddies. That they can do anything that men can do. That they should sleep with whoever they want and reclaim their sexual freedom. That they should pursue lives where they are wild and doing all of the things …These beliefs are lies.

These are the exact beliefs that cause the women who are living these kinds of lives to feel empty and shallow. Lives where they are chasing everything that they want and yet, feel empty inside. Lives that are worthless and have no meaning and no fulfillment. Lives where they continue to look for more and more things that are self-destructive. 

The Lord knows this and when he sees some of the women today, heading in directions that are destructive, he gives them pregnancies, and children to save them.

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He says in the passage above that women will be saved, in childbearing. This means in having children via birth and raising the child(ren), they will be saved. Saved from what is the next question…

The answer is, from falling into deeper darkness. Many women’s lives go into deeper chaos after abortions. They were in dark places before, but afterwards, their lives became nightmares. Lives that went into deeper acts that destroy their souls. Witchcraft. Hedonism. Perversion, and all kinds of darkness…because something has to fill the void left…

He knows that childbearing (and rearing) forces us to be about another person. He gives us the gifts of children, so that we may be saved in service to them. 

We all know that children cannot take care of themselves. They are dependent on their parents to help them in every area of their lives. The Lord knows this. He knows that we parents sacrifice ourselves for our children (ideally the way that Jesus sacrificed himself on the cross. With joy).

He then says in the next part of the verse if we continue in faith, love, humility with propriety…meaning, if we raise our children with love, and being humble in the service,  and behave in ways that are moral, we are to be saved. 

However, in lack of knowledge of who YHWH is, we spit in his face and kill his gifts. 

Let’s get this straight. Abortion is a sin. No matter how much we justify it, it is a sin.  We are destroying something that the Lord took time to create, as we see in Psalm 139.

Now. This is not to condemn anyone. It’s to help us understand the truth behind the matter of abortion and childbearing. 

So many of us are lost in the political argument behind this topic that we are not seeing the heart of the Lord in this. The heart of Lord that so many claim to be seeking, when they are seeking spiritual things. Abortion is not a political topic, as we’ve been deceived to think, it is spiritual beyond what any of us understand…and the enemy uses spiritual deception to trick people into this destructive act, and fostering their souls into damnation.

Years ago, I believed in the idea of reincarnation, and that aborted babies or spirit babies, would come back to their parents, until the Lord showed me the truth, that this is not the case.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

Hebrews 9:27

This verse showed me the truth. I had to repent for believing and spreading this lie, to the ones who creates – basically, the one who created the being. The one that no matter how many arguments we have back and forth, is the one who took his time, to make every single part of this person. Who in his infinite love, created a life that He was to delight in. The truth of the matter is that no matter what argument we use, the truth is that we, no matter how many times we have sex, can not create a life without the Creator…ask someone with fertility issues, if you have doubts.  

None of us is exempt from sin except we repent and turn back to the Lord. He knows that we are but dust. He knows that our seasons are short and that we are here for a small amount of time, and he waits for us to come to him…

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2 Peter 3:9

The problem is not his lack, but the reality that time will at some point run out for us to repent. 

“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near…”

Isaiah 55:6

This verse, by deduction, lets us know that at some point, although he is near, at one point he will not be. 

Listen, I’m not here to point any fingers. If you’ve had an abortion, and have been affected by it, allow this to be your wake up call to repent to the Lord for the choice that you made, and allow his Love and forgiveness to heal you. This is why Jesus came. The Lord knows that this world is sinful and full of darkness. He knows that we are full of lies from the enemy that has come to destroy us. The amazing thing is that all we have to do is to repent of our sins and to come back to him.  To set us free from this cycle. To atone for our sins, and to help us connect once again with YHWH and be in right standing with the Lord.

Abortions affect everyone involved. But the Lord extends his grace and mercy to those who seek him earnestly. 

Allow his goodness and mercy to work in your life. What he meant for good, we allow the enemy to destroy…and yet, he still heals, he is still good. This is why Jesus came, lived a perfect life, died on a cross and was risen again on the third day. He took all of our sins, and nailed them to the cross. To be the atonement for our sins, and to give us a way back to life. He is life and light. He is the one that takes the hurt and gives us a new life and healing.

To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.

Isaiah 61:3

Repentance is the gift that we are given, after Jesus took our sins on the cross. 

 Seek him today.

Repent and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped out.

Acts 3:19

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 John 1:9