40 Days For Life Day 8

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DAY 8 INTENTION
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We pray for a renewal of our zeal to offer
generous help to the unborn and their families.

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SCRIPTURE
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If I have despised the cause of my male or female
servant when they complained against me, what then
shall I do when God rises up? When He punishes,
how shall I answer Him? Did not He who made me in
the womb make them? Did not the same One fashion
us in the womb?

-- Job 31:13-15

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REFLECTION
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The ground is level as we stand before God.

Job lived with an awe provoking sense of God's
expectation of him, particularly regarding his
obligation to care for the weak and needy.

He knew that in God's economy everyone stands on
level ground when it comes to our status as God's
creatures. Because of that central truth, we must
take care of each other.

Job also knew that he didn't deserve any of the
good things God gave to him. Instead, those
blessings came to Job from God's benevolent heart.

As an extension of that knowledge, Job
instinctively linked his obligation to be generous
to others to God's kindness toward him.

As in Jesus' parable of the unmerciful servant
(Matthew 18:23-35), Job knew that it is an
egregious sin to deny to others what we enjoy
ourselves.

He actually calls down on his own head severe
condemnation and even punishment should he fail to
share with others out of his own abundance (see
verses 16-23).

Proverbs 3:27 reads, "Withhold not good from them
to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your
hand to do so." Some things are so obvious that we
don't even need to pray except to ask of God
forgiveness and the power to do what so obviously
needs doing.

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PRAYER
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God, forgive us when we try to explain away the
obligation we have to help others who need help.

Enable us to not devalue them because they are in
the circumstance that they are in, but to see them
for what they are, those, who like us, were formed
by your hand in their mother's womb. In Jesus' name,
Amen.

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Yours for Life,

David Bereit
National Campaign Director
40 Days for Life

Shalom~~