I can’t seem to get Father’s Day out of my mind, even though the official celebration is over. I keep thinking about the young man (I shared in the last two articles Abortion Hurts Many...) who faced an unplanned pregnancy, then made the decision to support his girlfriend with the choice to have an abortion. Repeatedly, the question has been “What was he feelings on Father’s Day?”
My mind filled with thoughts, as I sat in church on Father’s Day of how many
men were sitting in the pews with this “secret sin.” Questions kept
popping up in my little brain like.... Do they feel the same lost as the woman
who physical carried the child, then went through with the abortion? Do they
think about the child's birth date? Maybe they too wonder if the child would
have looked like them. Could they be thinking, what it would’ve sounded like to
hear “Daddy, I love you.”
That's when I thought about young man, who would be anticipating the birth of his child, if he had only trusted God. I wanted to call him on the phone to see how he was doing and ask those every questions, that earlier in the day, had been swimming around in my head. But I couldn’t… so I prayed.
Father God,
I know that nothing goes unseen; You see it all. You see the hearts of so many whom everyday chooses to hide from You. Lord, I wish that I could request, on behalf of this young man, for You to forgive him of this sin, but I can’t, only he can.
So, Lord, I pray for his heart to soften along with anyone else who has been touched by abortion, so they will know of the amazing Grace and Mercy that awaits them. I ask for this one heart to be changed… In Jesus Precious Name, Amen!
