Some days ago I was walking on the streets of my Alma Mata when I came across a poster bearing the title of this write up. I received a jolt in my spirit when I suddenly realized that majority of us are knowingly and unknowingly permitting abortion in many areas our lives. It is my prayer that at the end of the day God would reveal to us areas we have been permitting abortion in our lives and help us to say an emphatic NO to any further abortions in Jesus name.
The main aim of the devil according to the word of God is to steal, kill and destroy i.e. ABORT the beautiful destiny that God has designed for us. Be that as it may, he needs our permission to carry out his major objective, as such he goes about seeking the permission to abort our glorious destinies in such a way that we readily grant him the permission. This evil aim he achieves by making us as far away from our creator as possible. As unbelievers, he makes us see no reason to give our lives to Christ and continue in our sinful nature. As believers, he ensures we refrain from activities that would build a closer relationship with God like going to church regularly (Ex 20), meditating on the word regularly (Joshua 1:8), prayer (Rom 12:12, 1Cor 7:5), praising God at all times (Luke 2:20) etc. He also sees to it that we do not completely abandon our old, sinful nature. As a result, we are outside the protection of our maker and the devil can ABORT our glorious destinies as he wishes because God will not associate himself with anyone in the above state.
However our father in heaven loves us so much and he wants us to fufill our destinies. Therefore he has put in place help for us in the form of the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:8, 2:4). As unbelievers the Holy Spirit constantly sends preachers our way to spread the good news hoping we would yield our hearts one day. As believers, the Holy Spirit is always there to point to us the carefully hidden devices of the devil. He sounds us a note of warning when we begin to postpone prayers and quite time, when we start missing church programmes, stop studying and preaching the word as we used to etc. He also empowers us to turn anew leaf when we call on him. But we can weary the Holy Spirit with our refusal to turn a new leaf either as believers or as unbelievers. Then the devil will have a filled day practicing different DESTINY ABORTION techniques on our destinies.
In conclusion, there is hope if we find ourselves in the above conditions and we want to make a u turn. Firstly we should come to God to ask for the forgiveness for giving the devil access to our lives sins knowing he is faithful and just to forgive us. As unbelievers we should give our lives to Christ because we can not even identify our destinies outside him. Then we should purpose in our hearts (Dan 1) never to go back to those things that caused the problems in the first place. After which we should call on the Holy Spirit to give us the enablement to refuse the devil permission to abort out destinies. We should then conclude by asking my God of restoration to restore our destinies and now go on to fufill the plan of God for our lives. It is my prayer that the lord will enable us to continue in those things which secure our destinies and we will not fall victim of the hidden devices of the devil.
GOD BLESS US ALL
