I don’t usually
let bumper stickers bother me, nor do I care to post my political opinions
(even when I have them) on social media sites. But there was a vehicle in my
work place’s parking lot today with a sticker that just made me mad. It read:
“How can you be pro-LIFE,
when you eat DEAD ANIMALS?”
Well, allow me to
hurl up a few pieces of my mind.
“Why do we eat dead
animals? The live ones wiggle too much.”
- a beloved family member
- a beloved family member
“If eating animals is
wrong, why aren't we on a campaign against carnivores?”
“Excuse me while I go
uproot an entire forest of seedling pine trees, throw them in a heap, and burn
them with fire.”
“If the ever growing
wolf population in Eastern WA has the right to eat elk, so do I.”
I won’t claim the
ability to change anyone’s mind about being vegetarian OR about being
pro-abortion. Being vegetarian is not a big deal at all; I really don’t care if
people don’t eat meat. But if you protest AGAINST the killing of animals at the same time that you protest FOR the woman’s "right" to kill her own
baby, my heart burns with anger at your sin and it breaks with sorrow for your
soul.
People are more important than animals. Stop killing our babies.
There is a God who
created the world and everything in it. He is all-knowing, He is all-powerful, and
He is Holy. He created life, and He alone has the right to give it and to take
it away, unless He Himself gives permission. Which He did, in regards to animals: "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything." (Genesis 9:3) Whether you believe He exists or not, it doesn't change the fact that you
will stand before Him one day, and I pray that His Holy Spirit will bring
conviction to your soul before you meet Him face-to-face.
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God." John 3:16-18
"All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." Romans 3:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." Romans 6:23
"I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." - Jesus, John 14:6
