Life is so precious to God. It must be because once we came into existence, the Lord did all He could to keep us around. When humanity, in Adam, rebelled against God and He knew we would continue to do so, He didn’t throw us away and start over with a new batch. The fact that we were alive meant everything to Him—and still does.

He knew we wouldn’t be perfect. He knew we wouldn’t be normal. Our brain capacity and mental abilities would be diminished and distorted. He saw that we’d be crippled with lying, cheating, anger, sexual immorality, murder, and other perversions. The life-deformed, aberrant state of sin into which we’re all born would guarantee that we’d be handicapped with these things.

Yet, He being Life; the perfect Life; deemed that we, made in His image, are deserving of His perfect Life. Why? Simply because we are alive. That’s why we’re so important to Him. Your life is acknowledged and claimed by Life as its own. Every life is an extension of Him and meant to be His perfect righteousness.

Reflecting on that has caused me to rethink my position on aborting babies.  I’ve always been against aborting them and remain so. But I no longer agree with the one exception that I’ve gone along with; that is the endangerment of the mother’s life.

As heart wrenching as it would be, I now think the mother losing her life should not be a reason to terminate the baby’s life. Naturally, of course, this wouldn’t be such a clear-cut decision. Not for the mother; nor would it be easy to agree with by those who love her—family, friends, and/or the child’s father.

Nonetheless, supernaturally, the Christian thing to do is to ask what would Jesus do. We ask because we want to glorify Him in all our circumstances. I asked, and brought to mind was Jesus saying this, “Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.” John 15: 13.

Taking that into consideration is why I think risking the mother’s life is the Christian thing to do. Such a sacrifice would be in accord with God’s agape (unconditional) love for others. It would be taking on the attitude, the mind of Jesus, who thought it not robbery to let go of equality with God. He died, that we may live.

It’s not easy for me to take this position, but I think I would believe in it even if I were a woman. For, man or woman, I think we all want the what-ought-to be-reality of God’s ways of doing things? In other words, does my being a man really take away from the reality that the Christian mother will live again should she die?

The world, obviously, doesn’t see it this way. But we’re not the world. We are a heavenly kingdom that seeks to take on the thoughts, feelings, and motivations that come from God Himself.

Even in those other exceptions usually used to permit abortions – rape and incest – the baby’s life is life; and life is precious to God.

God, I believe, wants that baby’s life to come to know and enjoy the blessings of being one with and an extension of His Life.