40 Days For Life Day 13

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DAY 13 INTENTION
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We pray for the strength to love those who do not
love us.

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SCRIPTURE
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But the Lord said "You have had pity on the plant
for which you have not labored, nor made it grow,
which came up in the night and perished in the
night. And should I not pity Nineveh, that great
city, in which are more than one hundred and
twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between
their right hand and their left, and much
livestock? Should I not be concerned about that
great city?"

-- Jonah 4:10-11

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REFLECTION
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God doesn't value people and things like we do.

Jonah loved a shade tree more than an entire city
of sinful people. We love our dogs more than a
terrorist. We love our cars more than a beggar on
the side of the road. And sometimes, we love our
money more than a child growing in a desperate
teenager's womb.

But God isn't like us. Genesis 1 tells us that
humans were the capstone of God's creation.

We were created on the sixth day after God had
completed the land, the stars, the plants and the
animals. Therefore, His love for us is greater
than His love for a plant, an animal, or any other
created thing.

And the book of Jonah tells us that He loves even
the most sinful people and seeks to bring them
into His merciful arms. And it's a love that seeks
to touch all of his created children: that
desperate teenager, the baby growing in her womb,
even tyrants and terrorists.

So it's up to us to imitate God's merciful love by
helping and praying for those who persecute us,
and those who don't love us back.

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PRAYER
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Gracious God, loving our enemies seems like one of
most difficult things you could ask of us.

Please remind us that this is how you love and
that if you ask it of us then you will give us the
grace to do it. This we ask through Christ our
Lord, Amen.

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Let's not be deterred by opposition, and let's
keep praying, fasting and working to end this
tragedy of abortion!

Yours for Life,

David Bereit
National Campaign Director
40 Days for Life

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Shalom~~