There is much in the news about Roe v. Wade being overturned by the Supreme Court. Like just about everything else in our country, it continues to be politicized to the extreme. All of this has given me pause to think of what the great spiritual giants in Christianity have so often said, that God created because God wanted to love something else as He loves internally the Trinity. In other words, creation is God’s love affair with humanity. And to take it a step further, God created so that we could love Him back freely!
The Watson computer cannot love God, nor can the most developed robotics or AI. Nothing else in creation except we humans can love God consciously. This strikes me as the same reason why we have children and how we relate to our children. Is it not all of our fondest desire, even at an unconscious level, to conceive a child and to bring forth someone else to love? Do we not all desire a child to love and who will love us in return? And is it not also true that the way in which I love a child influences most profoundly how that child will love me? So as I listen to the continuous “chatter” about the Supreme Court I want to apply this pattern of love to both God and all of us.
This is why I think the reproductive process is so unique and special — a holy thing. Human reproduction has, in a very real way, the same characteristic of God’s love for us and our love for God. God is creating an object of love to which God can totally given Himself, so that we will one day be capable — through God’s grace — to love God freely in the same way.
Reproduction is reciprocal love! Which makes the rescinding of Roe v. Wade a desirable, God-created, return to humans who were created to desire to love freely. For it seems to me that we humans are like two-way mirrors: we both receive love from God and from others and give love to God and to others. We receive love and reflect love back.
Which is why abortion cannot be from God. How can we live out our purpose for creation if we abort others? Can a tuning fork pick up a tone and not immediately pass it along as resonance unless the fork is compromised?
Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.
From the Bible:
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another” John 13:34.
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another” 1 John 4:11.
“Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins” 1John 4:7-10.
“Let all that you do be done in love” 1 Corinthians 16:14.
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