What is a life worth? What is lost when a life is not given a chance to experience the world and the love and grace of God? What has the world lost? What has God lost? What is the cost?
We are all created in the image of God, broken as we may be. We are all called to unity with the Father and the Son. We are all to be like Him in word and deed and thought. It would seem at first glance that God intends to make us worshiping robots—all of us doing and saying the same things, but nothing could be further from the truth. Why else would He have made us individuals? God has something to reveal about Himself to and through each of us. This is the fulfillment of being created in His image. Each one of us has the joy of being intimate with God in a way no other can. As does each of us have something to reveal about God that only we can show to others.
More than 50 million babies have been aborted in our country in recent history. What could we have learned about God from them? They could have been great teachers, leaders, parents, friends—they could have changed the world. Our loss is really impossible to estimate. God’s loss is even more so. Each of those lives represents a piece of God we will not be blessed to know on this side of eternity. Each life ended is a cutting off of God’s hands and feet as well as a limiting of His heart.
“Each of us is a distinct flower or tree in the spiritual garden of God,—precious, each for his own sake, in the eyes of Him who is even now making us,—each of us watered and shone upon and filled with life, for the sake of his flower, his completed being, which will blossom out of him at last to the glory and pleasure of the Great Gardener.” – George MacDonald
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