One Day It Will Be...
This is an old picture of a couple on their wedding day probably back in the early 1900's.
People have become infatuated with pictures. Not just infatuated with pictures, but pictures of themselves. Lots of pictures, and some of those pictures? Well...
I enjoy reading, writing, and studying about history. We can learn so much about our lives today, how far we've come, and how much we've lost.
In reading news from happenings around our country, many people have expressed the thought that many in our land have lost not just their minds but any sort of reason and their moral compass.
With the advent of ultrasound devices where the baby in the womb can be seen the approval polls have become more positive for pro-life. People can now witness the babe growing and living before and after birth and many come away with new appreciation.
This isn't a post on or about infanticide or abortion. This post is about right, wrong, and some day.
We know that murder is wrong, and whether we acknowledge it or not both abortion and infanticide is a murder—the taking the life of another innocent human being. That is wrong.
But let's play the devil's advocate here. If it is acceptable to take the life of an innocent child before or right after birth...when is it wrong?
Maybe we can wait a few months and see how we get along before we decide? Like, when parents are sleep deprived and that baby keeps crying, and they slam it against the wall? It's no longer murder, they just decided to change the game.
Maybe we could wait a year or longer? When the kid becomes a bigger burden? Teenager? They can be a real pain, and a handful, so maybe then would be okay?
And on the other end of the spectrum when mom and dad reach those golden years, and they aren't so golden? The health goes, the mind goes, and the money is already gone...they are a burden to their family and their society/government.
Maybe then it's okay? As one person worded it lately, until we stop pretending it's okay to kill babies in the womb, other kids probably won't see it as wrong to kill kids in the class room.
Back in 1968 there was a song by Henson Cargill called 'Skip A Rope', that blamed 'Mom and Dad' for some pretty horrid behavior. In today's world, as in days gone by it takes all kinds, and children do tend to mimic adults in their lives.
Our biggest enemies are our leaders. In our state we have judges who instead of enforcing laws think it's their job to make laws. They are called 'activist judges', because instead of running for office, and being elected by the common people to that office...
They are appointed by someone to be a judge and they make the laws up as the go. At the beginning of the Mosaic Law God gave ten commandments.
It made people better and lifted them out of barbarianism. Lest we forget:
Exodus 20:1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2) I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3) Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4) Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 5) Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them... 7) Thou shalt not take the name of Jehovah thy God in vain; for Jehovah will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8) Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9) Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work... 12) Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee. 13) Thou shalt not kill. 14) Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15) Thou shalt not steal. 16) Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 17) Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor's.
