I have been sitting on this article all week. Praying and waiting to be sure I was not speaking out of emotions. I am pro-life, very pro-life. I don’t apologize for that, ever. I don’t even believe in the death penalty. I don’t believe we have to right to take another life. I have been pro-life ever since God opened my eyes. He will do that for you if you let Him. And if you are not willing enough for Him to open your eyes, I question your salvation, honestly. Salvation comes as a direct response to our surrender and willingness. We may not agree but if we claim to be saved we have to be willing to let Him speak to us.
Sunday May 31 2009 George Tiller died. Gunned down as he served as an usher at a Lutheran church in Wichita Kansas . The location of his death disturbs me more than anything. Not that he died at a church but that he died while serving at a church . And by all appearances he died in sin. You see George Tiller was an abortionist, and not just any abortionist, but a baby killer of the worst kind. Below are some of his “accomplishments”
- he performed late term abortions as late as days before the due date, and then made excuses
- he is responsible for the deaths of 60,000 babies
- he had political influences
- he was accused of illegal activities and paid his way out of it
- he cremated the babies on the property where they were aborted
- he offered strange post abortion services, like baptisms and funeral services so everything was a nice sweet happy ending
- he was so deceived that he honestly believed he was providing a service, well for a huge price of course
He was every bit as vile and disgusting and guilty as Hitler, and also as charming. The fact that he was gunned down should not surprise anyone. If we know God’s Word we know how one thing leads to another. when you see storm clouds coming it usually means rain. When when sows murder he usually reaps murder, when one sins unrepentantly one dies and when one lives by the sword he usually dies by the sword. It is no different that the law of gravity. Unless the grace of God is accepted. Which it wasn’t by all appearances.
And yet. God weeps. He weeps over the death of George Tiller. George Tiller was loved by God. Jesus died for him the same as he died for you and I. God loved George Tiller every bit as much as He loved every one of those 60,000 babies he killed. To me that is completely beyond comprehension. It is un-fathomable. But it is true.
What a truly incredibly awesome God we serve.
The true heroes are those who prayed for George Tiller to accept Jesus, those who prayed that his eyes would be opened. Those who respectfully picketed and silently stood. George Tiller did not die without knowing that he had a choice, an opportunity to repent. He did not die without being presented with the Gospel. He was a man who believed in choice and he made his. What a sad sad day.
(as usual the liberal media is re-writing history fast, George Tiller will be a hero by the end of the week, even though I read most of those facts on his own website Sunday, by Monday they were gone, even the cache version has already been removed from Google, so I cannot verify any of those facts, some are available at http://www.dr-tiller.com and even that may be removed by the time you read this. So I guess this is my disclaimer, the above supposed facts could be considered hear-say)
Wonderfully said. I stood in silent protest on Wednesday here locally. Life is life…this man was EVIL but he did not deserve to die.
my first response to the news was sadness, that he had died in his sin without repenting and accepting God’s grace.
Yes, George Tiller deserved to die. We all do. It’s just that those who accept Jesus don’t have to die, even though we deserve it.
No, two wrongs don’t make a right, and my first reaction was one of “Oh, no, that will set back the pro-life movement”.
But still deep down, when I am really honest about my own emotions, I have to admit that I am kind of glad that George Tiller is gone. I wonder how many lives have already been saved because of this one act of violence. Maybe it is just my sinfulness showing. Or maybe we really should be looking after orphans and widows (and their like, such as unborn babies). Would you kill an intruder about to murder your neighbour’s 1-year-old? Of course. The reason we hesitate and state all the politically correct statements like George Tiller should not have been killed, is because killing him is illegal. If it were legal, it would have happened years ago, just as though he would die if intruding on your neighbour.
Killing him in that situation would be legal.
Yes, God does love him as much as anyone else. And this IS hard to grasp. But am I the only one secretly glad he’s gone?
Donna you are very right, he did deserve to die. We all do when we have sinned. “for the wages of sin us death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 6:23 And we have all sinned, but it is His grace that saves us.
The sad part is that he wouldn’t accept Jesus. And I don’t care that he was a church member, the Word doesn’t tell us that being a church member counts for anything. God sees the heart. The sad part is that he was so prayed for, and still rejected Christ.
And even as sad as that is, yes I rejoice that babies are alive today. If it were Bin Laden who had been killed, wouldn’t everybody be rejoicing? Yet 2,976
people died in 911, Tiller has killed 60,000 babies by his own accounts.