Harbor Life Ministries

I wanted to share a blessing from todays work.

I had to get up at 5:00 to get the girls up and around and get us to Celina at 9:00 to open the Pregnancy Center. I have to be honest, I really did not want to get out of bed and come. It was a hard trip, we were all very tired. But we did our devotions together, and that was good. But God worked today in ways that were exciting because I could actually see him work.

I had a phone call of young girl, 24, from Celina who needed to come in to EPS and talk about ?things.? When she got here we found out she had an abortion appointment tomorrow. So we talked and discussed options and support and she is not going for that abortion appointment tomorrow.

Another phone call came in and it was a mother of a 17 year old who just recently told her she was pregnant and she is 27 weeks. They went to the abortion clinic last week, but she was too far along, so they needed to go to a different clinic (praise the LORD), but she also called here, even though she had an appointment for today at the other clinic. We spoke and mom cried and cried, but she said she was not taking her daughter for the abortion, she did not really believe in abortion, even though the daughter wanted the abortion. They are coming in to talk on Thursday. Another life saved from abortion.

Watching God work is the reason we are here. You know without us being here today, those babies may not be here tomorrow… God really makes our jobs relevant to what He has called us to.

Posted by Doug Eberle

Here’s how Justin Taylor concluded a post on his “Between Two Worlds” blog in which he commented on John Piper’s view that today’s U.S. election has a few “complicating factors”:

…I want to plead with fellow evangelicals to recognize that this is a watershed election with regard to abortion. Barack Obama has promised to make signing the Freedom of Choice Act his first order of business in the White House–and with a Democratic Congress, he will be able to make this happen.

The Knights of Columbus recently catalogued the many small successes achieved in the pro-life political process since 1973:

• The Hyde Amendment, which restricts federal funding for abortions;
• The federal law banning partial birth abortions, which was finally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2007;
• The ?Mexico City Policy,? which has barred the use of federal taxpayers? money to pay for abortions in other countries;
• Laws in 44 states that preserve a parental role when children under 18 seek abortions;
• Laws in 40 states that restrict late-term abortions;
• Laws in 46 states that protect the right of conscience for individual health care providers;
• Laws in 27 states that protect the right of conscience for institutions;
• Laws in 38 states that ban partial birth abortions;
• Laws in 33 states that require counseling before having an abortion;
• And laws in 16 states that provide for ultrasounds before an abortion.

With a stroke of the pen, all of these would be gone.

I am under no illusions that electing John McCain will necessarily lead to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. But I do believe that McCain would be a good pro-life president, I know that McCain would veto the radical FOCA, and I know that Obama is the most extreme pro-abortion candidate to ever run for president.

I believe evangelicals should care deeply–though not idolatrously–about this election, and that they should do what they can to stop, or at least slow, the slaughter of the innocent. Voting is one of the things you can do. I encourage you to do it, and to do so with a view toward the weakest and most defenseless members of the human race–3,700 of whom are being killed every single day in the United States.

Well said.

The results of today’s U.S. Presidential election are ultimately in God’s hands by his sovereign nature. However, I pray that God’s people see the abortion issue as superseding any of the other important issues and vote accordingly. And may God continue to receive the ultimate glory no matter who is elected.