Lord, I Want to Be Whole: The Power of Prayer and Scripture in Emotional Healing by Stormie Omartian

Author:Stormie Omartian
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Healing, Self-Help
ISBN: 9780785267034
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2000-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

STEP 6: REJECT THE PITFALLS

“It's not a human being; it's just a mass of cells.

The baby's soul and spirit enter his body at birth. Besides, it's my life, and I have my rights.” this is the lie I believed. I was deceived, and I had little conscious guilt about taking the life of another person through abortion. But that didn't make it any less wrong or the consequences any less shattering.

Deception is walking, thinking, acting, or feeling in opposition to God's way and believing it's okay to do so. It's also believing that things are a certain way when they really aren't that way at all. Satan is the deceiver, and we are deceived when we align ourselves with him.

In order to stay undeceived, we must hold everything in our lives up to the light of God's Word to find the truth. We can't go by what the world accepts or rejects. That will only put us on shaky ground. The deception of abortion, for example, is thinking that because it's legal, there is nothing wrong with it. But when the very existence of another person hangs in the balance, it can no longer be just a matter of my life, my rights, and my choice. There is someone else to consider, and not to recognize that is to be deceived indeed.

In my own particular situation, I was desperate at the time of my abortions. I attributed the ill feelings I had about them to my own embarrassment. I didn't have any concept of abortion being immoral until after I received the Lord and had the spirit of truth living in me and my eyes were opened to God's truth;

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you.

(Jeremiah 1:5)

For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother's womb.

(Psalms 139:13)

I also read medical accounts of babies surviving outside the womb as early as the fifth month of pregnancy, and of babies inside the uterus perceiving light and sound stimuli. “Babies in the womb may be able to hear, see, taste, and feel emotions, “ said John Grossman in “Born Smart” (Health Magazine, March 1985). I had to admit that I destroyed someone God had created with abilities and gifts, calling and purpose. I wept. No,

I mourned. Abortion is a deception, and a pitfall awaits us when we go along with it.

Of course, God's grace means we don't pay for things as we deserve, but the effects are still there.

I never heard anyone who had an abortion say, “I feel totally fulfilled and thrilled about what I've done, and I know I'm an enriched and better person because of it.” Life was never the same again for me. I had added another dark secret to my it already burgeoning collection, and I could not feel completely good about myself.

All evil happens by deception. The devil entices us to accept things that are in opposition to God's ways. He appeals to our flesh and clouds issues to make them appear various shades of gray.

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