Apathy is as deadly as violence

Every week a pro life volunteer writes a thought provoking and sometimes convicting prayer and fasting reminder. This week her entry was spot on.

Yesterday a youth pastor who, last month was determined to make a commitment to greater pro-life action in his county, called to say he was just “too busy” to do anything.
Today, I had an opportunity to talk with a college pastor who admitted that he “had never given much thought” to the reality that his students were on the front lines of the greatest holocaust in human history.
Yesterday an ardent pro-abortionist, Kathleen Sebellius, was confirmed and quickly sworn in as the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with very little objection raised to her income tax evasion and financial ties to a notorious late term abortionist.
Also this week urgent alerts went out across the state for pro-life people to contact legislators in Nashville urging the swift passage of a bill that will de-fund Planned Parenthood. Yet the bill continues to languish in a subcommittee, while Planned Parenthood rallies its lawyers and money to defeat it, because weak-willed legislators were getting most of their calls from Planned Parenthood advocates, not from passionate pro-lifers!
A wise pastor once wrote that “Apathy is as deadly as violence.” and truly this week we have seen the truth of it. The slaughtered innocents are just as dead whether those who stand by are pro-abortionists or “pro-lifers,” who are just too busy with other things to care.
These questions come to mind:
· How long do you suppose the systematic slaughter of innocent children would continue in this nation if the people of God found the time to stand up and say, “Enough!”
· Does History recall all the wonderful things the German churches did while they turned a blind eye to the extermination of millions in their midst?
· Isn't it time that each of us “give some thought” and “find some time” to “display strength and take action” to bring an end to the greatest holocaust In human history?If not us, then who? If not now then when?
Please pray and fast for the defeat of apathy in our churches………and in our own hearts.
In Him for life,
Chris
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
Edmund Burke