GRASSHOPPERS, HUMANS AND ABORTION

 What use has the grasshopper? What a pesky little creature, the grasshopper. And ugly too. Have you ever looked at one up close and personal? Ugly mouths that dominate the face.

And speaking of mouths, have you ever stood in the dry heat of summer and heard a herd of them, a swarm, eating in the grass around you? It's a terrible sound. Soon though it's all over and all the greenery has been stripped clean. They live to eat and eat to live.

And they lay their eggs in the ground in order for there to be a new generation to demolish the next garden you plant or the fields you sow. What use has the grasshopper? I'll leave it to others who study insects to answer.

Why am I writing about grasshoppers? Because of something I read today and something I have read many times in the past.

In the book of Isaiah, chapter 40 verse 22 it says:"There is One dwelling above the circle of the earth, the dwellers in which are grasshoppers."

There. God is said to see mankind as though we are grasshoppers.

Verse 22 finishes: "The One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwell."

Verse 23 continues the paragraph: "The One who is reducing high officals to nothing, who has made the very judges of the earth as a mere unreality."

God, who has no equal, could easily wipe mankind off the face of the earth as easily as a man can stomp on a grasshopper. Easier. And yet, He allows us to go on living. He allows us to go on irritating Him and making Him angry and making Him sad. He doesn't exterminate us as He could do.

Abortionists are not that way toward the less powerful unborn. They kill and destroy unborn children as easily as if they were crushing the eggs of grasshoppers. They call them names that, in their minds, lessen their worth as living creatures. They say they are not a human, that they are not a living creature. They try to make them a mere unreality.

And they put forth their many 'reasons' for doing so. They argue that it is the right of the mother to control her own body. Well yeah, but the baby's body is a different matter entirely. They say that women who are raped shouldn't have to have a baby because of what was done to them. The baby will only be a reminder of the rape. Not only are the abortions performed by the thousands, but most of the babies killed are not the result of rape. And what is more, killing the child won't erase the memory of the rape. It will only keep the baby from having any memories and perhaps cause the woman to mourn the loss later in life.

Women also say, as do a few men, that men should have no say in the debate on abortion. Why not? Men are the fathers of the babies and when children are allowed to be born, men are expected to help care for and support them. The argument that men should have no say in what happens to their tiny sons and daughters makes about as much sense as it does to say women shouldn't care if there is war.  Women care about their sons and daughters going off to battle and perhaps dying. Men have feelings too.

And what about the feelings of those who find out that they would have had a brother or sister if their mother hadn't had an abortion? Do they have no rights either?

And in their articles and 'stories' they use the tactic of quoting from the book they  daily disobey in order to try to justify their actions. They tell the rest of us that we are not to 'judge' them.  They say they are the ones showing 'compassion' and other honorable human feelings, and that those who oppose abortion are 'heartless' and 'cruel' because we don't have feelings for the 'poor' girls and women who have 'no other option' than to abort.

I recall something Jesus said: "Let the young children come to me and do not try to hinder them." If this world was under the control of abortionists, there would be no children to go to Jesus and be loved and taught by him. No children for him to take in his arms and comfort.

Consider the woman who is told she has a 'right' to an abortion and has one. What will be her comfort later on when she recalls what she has done? In the quiet and dark when she is alone, perhaps lonely and wanting a child to love, will it comfort her to know she killed a baby? Or would it be a greater comfort to know the child was happy somewhere because she didn't have an abortion, but chose life and adoption?

Memories of rape hurt the victim and her family. Memories of a love gone wrong hurt. But so do memories of abortion. Memories of murdering a tiny innocent child.

Unless the ones having them are truly grasshoppers.

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Please be aware: this is not a debate. These are my feelings on the matter and are not open to debate on this page. Comments may be deleted if I choose to, and I will reply to them before deletion.