About five years later, I heard a speaker talk about abortion and other issues. The speaker stated, “If they are wrong, then they are always wrong. Could you imagine saying, I don’t think it is right to kill, but it is up to you whether you think it is right?”
Either it is right or it is wrong. It can’t be both, no matter how we much we think there should be a gray area. God’s Word is true. There is no in-between. If we don’t have set laws, then where are the boundaries? What is permissible?
I thank God that He showed me His heart on this issue. I started standing for the fact that abortion should never be done. Though it’s true that abortion is wrong, it was never that God viewed the women who had abortions as evil. They are like a lot of us—hurting people.
God loves these women. This does not permanently separate them from God. It is just like any sin that separates us from God—like lying, stealing or cheating. We are all separated from God until we confess our sins to Him and receive Jesus as our Savior. I am so thankful that He is faithful to forgive us.
And if you think that I cannot relate to facing such circumstances—driven to cry out, Why did God let this happen?—you would be wrong. My life changed dramatically nine years ago after a “minor” car crash. It didn’t look so bad at first, but my neck and back were hurt. Since then, I have gone through multiple procedures including a surgery and medications galore with no relief.
I have not been able to work due to the pain I live with every day, which limits what I can do. And if I can do some things, the amount of time I can do them has been drastically reduced. I never expected my life to change so dramatically.
The questions come: why did God allow the accident to happen? And why haven’t I been healed? What is the purpose? I have no answers to these questions today. I don’t know why I am walking down this road of difficulty right now.
But what I do know is that God is still a good God. He loves me, and He is walking this road with me. And I do believe what His word says: that all things work to the good for those who love Him. There are times where I get a glimpse of how He is using my experiences to minister to others and empathize with them, in ways I could not have understood before the accident.
Everything that happens, God can use for good. I have also seen how He has worked things in me that have drawn me closer to Him. It is by His grace and love that I make it through each day. I can truly say He is my God, my best friend, my healer, my deliverer, my strength, my joy, and so much more.
My calling is to be in prayer for the hearts of men and women who are faced with the choice of having an abortion, that God would open their hearts to hear His voice. Knowing God as the creative, all-knowing, all powerful One, He enables us to choose life.
I pray that they would know that the child in the mother’s womb is wonderfully made … and God has a plan for the mother, father and their child.
Margaret Hufschmid is a wife, mother, former government accountant and now grandma. For years a participant in Bound4LIFE prayer events, she blogs about her life and faith at Pearls for Your Journey. She lives in the Orlando, Florida area with her husband Richard, where they love spending time with their extended family and grandkids.
Reprinted with permission from Bound4LIFE.
