By Judie Brown
A culture-of-death universe leaves no room for the miracles the Lord can work in our lives. The following account, for example, would never pass the scrutiny of the deniers who market death and destruction as human rights. Matthew 9:20-22 reads:
A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him and touched the tassel on his cloak.
She said to herself, “If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.”
Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.” And from that hour the woman was cured.
This touching account calls to mind the contrast between the person of faith and the secular humanist. While the woman noted above came to the Lord, probably with fear and trepidation, the secular humanist would not be so moved. This person’s credo is literally “it’s all about me,” and for such a person, the healing power of God is not even a passing idea.
A host of recent online articles make the point for us.
The first is a study of 29 physicians working in the pulmonary care field who have suggested that lack of access to abortion leads to serious harm to their patients’ health and welfare. Of note is the fact that there are 19,797 pulmonologists in the United States and its territories, which means that a minuscule number contributed to a study claiming to share accurate facts about women’s health in the post-Dobbs era.
Such dubious studies garner immediate attention in our pro-death world, but sometimes what we hear or see does not measure up to reality. In the case of this study, doing the math suggests that without faith in Christ and the ability to entrust our lives to Him as we muddle through, media scare tactics might actually affect us, even when they are based on little more than an iota of accuracy.
On another front, the topic of government family planning programs and recent actions from the Trump administration caused Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Action Fund, to say, “We know what happens when health care providers cannot use Title X funding: People across the country suffer, cancers go undetected, access to birth control is severely reduced, and the nation’s STI crisis worsens.”
What McGill Johnson fails to mention is that when Title X began in 1970 it was strictly to fund family planning, not for the treatment of cancer or for the sexually transmitted disease crisis, both of which have grown exponentially because of the use of “family planning” products, including abortion.
In other words, relying on the manufactured modes of controlling whether or not a couple procreates a child is quite similar to driving down a crooked road with blinders on your eyes. There are risks involved in the use of such methods, while trusting in the Lord and using His method for spacing children offers nothing that will harm one’s mental, physical, or spiritual health.
Again, your faith will save you.
Finally, the decisions one makes at the end of her life or those made by others can prove to be deadly. On that topic, we see that New York could become the eleventh US jurisdiction to legally permit physician-assisted suicide. In other words, a doctor can be legally engaged in those states to prematurely take the life of one of his patients. As gut-wrenching as this may sound, the fact that such laws exist at all is a tragic example of what happens when human beings rely on themselves alone and do not have the faith that saves.
No matter the topic, there are far too many people saying “it’s complicated” about such matters. The bare-bones truth is that there is no complication to be found other than man’s desire to be like God!
Not a single person can go through life without problems of one sort or another, but when trust in the Lord is primary in one’s life, the problem at hand can simply be surrendered to Him, as we trust in His love and mercy for each of us.
In this trust, we must remember that Christ says to us too: “Your faith will save you!”