The Strength of Patience

Impatient people are weak.  It takes strength to wait.  And, as John Piper points out, faith in God's glorious might is the channel through which the power for patience comes.

"May you be strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy" (Colossians 1:11).

"Human Rights Since Birth"

So very sad that the UN presents human rights as coming into effect at birth and thus implies that, prior to birth, one lacks rights or is not human, or both.  [Link to the above image and page.  See also my FB post on this disturbing image.]

Day of Mourning

Today is a day of mourning, after the US Senate refused to protect babies born alive after failed abortions:  44 senators gave their approval for leaving these little ones to die--babies who have been born, are alive, are outside the womb... yet may be left to die, gasping for breath.  In other words, 44 US senators gave their approval for infanticide.  Talk that this legislation would have actually clashed with existing abortion law was utterly unfounded and incorrect--sheer deception and falsehood (see text of bill).

Author of the bill, Senator Ben Sasse (pictured), discusses the sad fact that 44 senators could not bring themselves to actually stand up for the weak, the vulnerable, the defenseless.  Their rejection of this legislation calls into question the genuineness of so many of the 44 who claim to advocates for the disadvantaged and exploited and for those who are discriminated against.  If a desperate newborn lying on a table is not a classic example of such voiceless and vulnerable people, who is?  Note also Sasse's speech prior to the vote.

I do want to acknowledge the courage and conviction of three Democratic senators who defied the majority in their party and stood up for the weak and defenseless, and who thus caused the support for this bill to be truly bi-partisan:  Bob Casey (PA), Joe Manchin (WV), and Doug Jones (AL).