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Where Are Your Accusers Now?

Penned by Joanna Reyburn May on Sunday, May 15, 2005
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The Silent Seige is taking place at the FoxHill abortion clinic at 103rd and Roe in Overland Park, Kansas. Young and old gathering outside the clinic, with the word "LIFE" written on red tape covering the mouth in a "prayer seige" on behalf the over 40 million American aborted children since Roe V. Wade.

I love and support what they're doing there, but I haven't been yet. I don't know if I am going to go. This issue has been heavy on my heart of late.

Being adopted; a crisis pregnancy that could have so easily ended in an abortion, I have always been very vocal about where I stand. I have strongly advocated abstinance & adoption, counselled prospective adoptive parents as well as unwed mothers, and supported the pro-life movement. But in the past few weeks I have begun to see the contrast of my personal offense at abortion, and God's heart.

I have been loud, yes. Meek? no.

I am beginning to see my self-righteous attitude on the abortion issue. How my defensive self-preservation is void of the reality of God's heart. I feel a strong personal offense at the prospect of abortion. Relating it to the possibility that it could have been me; I react. Vehemently. I'm ready to wear my shirt, inform some uneducated mother of the "facts," march in a parade, whatever it takes. But I can't honestly say it's been because I've been motivated by God's genuine emotions.

But God isn't looking for me to get offended. He isn't looking for me to stir up MY zeal. This isn't some cheap student protest or political rally. There's no "hyping my way" into justice or transformation. If I'm relying on my personal sense of justice, I won't be walking in humility & meekness. I'll miss the people in my anger toward the sin. Compassion flies out the window, and at the end of the day I'm bitter towards God for not answering my prayers the way I expected Him to.

I don't want to simply be personally offended, I want to experience God's own emotions! I want to be feel the way he feels about children. I want to have a heart for the plight of the widows and orphans. I want to see with His eyes what abortion truly looks like. I want the sensitivity to know the Jesus driving the tax collectors out of the temple (John 2:13-17) and the Jesus who pulled the adultress up from the dust (John 8:1-12) saying "Where are your accusers now?"