Since when is defending children only a task for women?
"Men, like soldiers, may not quit the post."
This is how Alfred Lord Tennyson once described the challenge of living a life of courage and integrity- an experience should be the mark of any man of true faith. But, alas, in our day, there - - are many evidences to suggest that contemporary Christian men have forgotten the virtues inherent in being a soldier of the Lord. On a myriad of matters, they have indeed "quit the post" and left the field to the marauding forces of decadence.
But it doesn't have to be this way!
"Men, like soldiers, may not quit the post."
There are men who are boldly, creatively, and consistently raising the standard of Christ's righteousness in both the private and public arenas. Among them are those who have accepted the responsibility of Proverbs 24: 11-12 --- "Deliver those who are being taken away to death, And those who are staggering to slaughter, O hold them back.
If you say, 'See, we did not know this,' Does He not consider it who weighs the hearts?
And does He not know it who keeps your soul? And will He not render to man according to his work?"
Such men are fighting against the devil's schemes of abortion, infant homicide, and euthanasia.
Their purposes are clearly biblical; they honor the Lord in both their motivation and methodology; and they are making an enormous difference! By the grace of God and through the power of His Holy Spirit, they are winning battles involving the greatest of all stakes.
They ask you to join them!
True, there is a cost involved in battling the devil, but the man of God must not turn away from such an awesome responsibility simply because of its difficulty or pain. Indeed, men who have taken the challenge and defended "the least of these" have experienced not only the comfort of Christ in pursuing His cause, but the fellowship of like-minded heroes has yielded what Sir Walter Scott has described as that "stern joy which warriors feel."
Though the battle be a hard one, the place of God's servant is in the thick of it, not on the supposed safety of the sidelines.
Acclaimed author and human rights activist Elie Wiesel has written eloquently about the Holocaust of World War II: "The principle that governs the biblical vision of society is 'Thou shall not stand idly by when your fellow man is hurting, suffering, or being victimized.' It is because that injunction was ignored or violated that the catastrophe involving such multitudes occurred. The victims perished not only because of the killers, but also because of the apathy of the bystanders...What astonished us after the torment, after the tempest, was not that so many killers killed so many victims, but that so few cared about us at all."
In our culture's present holocaust, one that witnesses over 4,000 preborn boys and girls barbarically destroyed every day in the United States, can men who claim the mantles of faith and integrity again be mere bystanders of the horror?
Or will men rise to the challenge
and take their rightful place as defenders of the defenseless?
Please contact Vital Signs Ministries or the pro-life agency in your own area today to learn how you can make a life-saving, culture-changing impact!
"No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the One Who enlists him as a soldier." II Timothy 2:4