(Written Thursday, May 31, 2012, by Rev. Dr. James I. Lamb)
It’s dark in Iowa today, overcast and rainy.
Nothing though like the dark clouds over our nation. They got even darker today.
I’m not one who often makes “statements” about political doings. But the defeat today by the House of Representatives of the ban on sex-selection abortion goes beyond the political.
It is insane, irrational, and nonsensical.
It is a dark symptom of the deeper darkness that follows when a nation abandons the morality of the laws of nature and of nature’s God.
Think of it, we have a president and national leaders (although “leaders” is a gross misnomer) who think it discrimination to deny marriage rights to homosexuals and yet find it “good” to deny the right to life to little girls and sanction cutting them to pieces simply because they are little girls.
Our president and national so-called leaders are not championing the cause of women, they are killing women.
Our president and national so-called leaders are not defending the “inalienable rights” bestowed by our Creator, they defy our Creator and blaspheme His name in a way not seen since the Israelites blasphemed God and threw their baby girls into the fire of Molech or since the Romans blasphemed Him by throwing their baby girls into the garbage dump.
As we know from those situations, our patient and loving God did not hold back His wrath forever.
It’s dark in Iowa today. Darker still in our country. But ranting and raving at the darkness, as I have just done, will not make the darkness go away. It only makes me feel better, although not much.
You can’t fight darkness with darkness. For that you need light. For that we have light, The Light of the world. Lutherans For Life will continue to connect the light of the Gospel to the deeds of darkness that assault God’s gifts of marriage and life.
We will continue to pray that God will change the hearts of His people so that we might see how deep the darkness is and the urgency of serving The Light of the world by being the lights of the world He asks us to be.
It’s dark in Iowa today, but I see light in the west. You can’t block out the Son forever.