So, I watched some of the coverage of the Mississippi Supreme Court abortion case yesterday and have to admit that I am encouraged by what I saw.
Mostly.
Except for some of the protesters it seemed like the right questions were being asked.
I guess that’s a start.
But there was a group of mostly female ( I think ) protestors that stood outside waving signs and screaming ‘my body, my choice’ and swallowing ‘abortion’ pills.
Wow.
Really?
That’s a little dramatic, don’t you think?
I was reminded of a term that have I read in the Bible, so I spent the morning looking at how scripture describes that term.
The term?
The depraved, or reprobate mind.
That phrase, or one similar, is mentioned in 68 verses, according to my Bible app and is scattered throughout both the Old and New Testament.
So I guess that a depraved or reprobate mind isn’t exactly a new thing.
In fact, as I studied, I saw that the depraved mind might be singularly the greatest, meaning the worst, threat to the proper order of things that mankind has ever faced.
First we need to determine who determines the proper order of things.
I obviously believe that God, our Creator, does.
He made us for a reason, and that reason was not rebellion, it was to worship Him.
If you don’t believe that, well… okay.
That’s your right.
But that is the seed of the reprobate mind.
The denial of the deity of God.
Yesterday, in Romans we talked about God’s wrath but if we continue reading in that same chapter we find some gems that I have to say, describes our world today, as if it were prophesy.
Maybe it is.
I’m just going to reprint the whole thing here, nothing I can say or write can deliver the powerful impact of these verses any better than just reading The Word.
19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the un-corruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four footed beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
31 Without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
That phrase, reprobate mind, is explained in detail, is it not?
These women, ( I think ) have obviously given themselves over to a reprobate and depraved way of thinking.
Not the young mothers, often alone, faced with a difficult choice, who have been led to believe that abortion isn’t truly going to kill a human being but instead will excise a ‘clump of cells’.
But it is those militant proponents of the murder of their own children, so committed to this lie, that they have a right to kill what God has permitted to be conceived, that they would stand on the steps of the Supreme Court and publicly ingest abortifacients to which I refer.
So, I’m thinking that this reprobate mind is probably something we should take a closer look at.
In fact, as I study, I realize that since Cain and Able, this depraved or reprobate mindset has been the limiting factor of human development.
Stay with me here, okay?
This one is a long way around the barn.
Here is the place where rebellion against God begins.
In the mind that says to itself, ‘No one has the right to tell me what to do, not even God.’
Don’t get me wrong, I, of all people, believe that sometimes, rebellion is a good thing, even necessary at times.
Rebellion against injustice, against an unjust rule or law, or against those who would rule over us in tyranny is not only good, but I believe it is required if we are to be the men ( and women ) that God has made us to be.
But not rebellion against God!
And I truthfully believe that it is this rebellion against God that has brought America low.
Look at American history if you disagree.
While we were a God fearing nation, we prospered.
Since we stopped being a God fearing nation we have begun to fall apart at the seams.
Just look at what we were, and what we are now, and tell me that something isn’t broken!
You can’t, can you?
Some say that correlation doesn’t equal causation, but in this case I believe that it does.
All of our problems as a nation, and as individuals, can be traced back to removing God from our daily lives, but that my friends, is a much longer study.
In fact, it is the study of a lifetime.
Here’s another verse to think about.
Titus 1:15-16:
15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Is that us?
The collective us, I mean.
Sure sounds like it to me.
But there is still hope, I believe.
It’s not too late to repent.
We need to turn, before we burn.
Both physically and spiritually.
Just something to thing about.
Good day.