The Conformity Of Abortion Think

I arrive at the ICU Mobile office early every day, usually before 7:00 a.m., to pray and do my devotions before the work day begins. This morning, my devotion focused on 1 Kings 18:16-39.

No matter how you would have looked at the odds, they didn’t stack up in Elijah’s favor. He was just one person standing up for God against not only the 450 prophets of Baal but also a teeming mass of godlessness consuming his own people, the chosen children of Israel. The people, seduced by the idolotry of the culture around them, knew better. Yet, when Elijah confronted them about their disobedience, they remained silent.

How could this have happened? The same way it happens to us. Whether we call it groupthink, conformity, peer pressure, compliance, inclusiveness, tolerance, mob mentality or whatever, if a group doesn’t temper its course with godly wisdom, the results can be dangerous. An issue can become culturally mainstream, but that doesn’t necessarily make it good or right. It’s just common. Prevalent. Yet for many people, when it becomes common it becomes normal and acceptable.

And so it is with abortion. Abortion isn’t good and it isn’t right. It’s just common. Prevalent.

How could it be that the United States could become the kind of nation that kills unborn children? Certainly, we ought to know better. The answer is found in the Israelites of Elijah’s day. Surrounded by peer pressure to conform to a godless and idolatorous culture, Americans have given themselves over to a culture of death and destruction of unborn children. This isn’t just an American issue by any means. Globally each year, 42 million pregnancies end in an induced abortion. Humanity, on a global scale, has also succumbed to the conformity of abortion think.

Speak up against it, and the masses will call you intolerant, a religious zealot and disprespectful of women. Stand up for the unborn and you will be labeled as out of step with the mainstream and branded devoid of common sense. Abortion think has consumed our world.

To the people around him, Elijah’s beliefs and actions seemed culturally out of step and devoid of common sense. Like an Old Testament Jason Statham, he took a stand as an individual, respresenting God instead of giving in to the group think of the culture.

Throughout Scripture, the strength and value of well-tempered individuals shine through. Our reaction to abortionists and the cultural elite that demands our conformity can’t be riddled with hate, vitriol and radical reaction. It must be well-tempered, filled with love and, above all else, glorifying to God.

At ICU Mobile, that is exactly what we do. Our fleet of mobile pregnancy centers, the Fleet for Little Feet, serve women facing an unplanned pregnancy with love, grace AND the truth. We GO to where they are rather than wait for them to find us. We stand firmly on the Word of God in a sea of abortion think conformity and ask Him to use us an an instrument of His will to end abortion.

Instead of seeking serenity, maybe our prayer should be, “God grant me the determination to know your Word, the courage to confront those who distort it and the wisdom to know the difference”

 

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