It’s Also Time to #ShoutYourAbortionForgiveness

In recent days, a sensation has made waves online that has so many people up in arms, and rightly so. A movement started on Twitter and quickly moved to other social media platforms. It was a chance for women who had aborted a child to no longer whisper about it, but to proudly bring that out in the open.

It was given the social treatment with a hashtag: #ShoutYourAbortion.

Some “shouted” about their experience and wanted to do it again. Some did so, and were just thankful that someone had given them an outlet to share that they were not sorry for their abortion. They felt liberated by the viral nature of how this spread.

Others began to speak out against the movement. Of course, some started a competing hashtag that also made waves: #ShoutYourAdoption. Others simply made a statement about how sad it is that we are just not sorry about abortion any longer as a society, but now we are willing to shout it in pride for “health” and “life decisions.”

Of course, I side with those who would shout an adoption. Being an adoptive parent myself, our heart goes out to those babies who need a home.

Also, abortion is wrong. Murder, no matter what we might want to call it, is wrong. We must stand up for the life of the unborn and never back down.

All that said…

I think there is another hashtag that needs to be making the rounds, as well.

Abortion is wrong, and it is a sin. However, it is not an unforgivable sin. As awful as abortion is, just as the alcoholic can repent and be forgiven by the Lord, so, too, can the person who has had an abortion be forgiven. If one is willing to repent, God will forgive, and that includes the one who has ended a pregnancy through abortion.

So, today, I am asking you to help start another movement. It is for those who feel shame for their actions, and are willing to turn to God. It is for those who are willing to repent and live for Him.

It is time to #ShoutYourAbortionForgiveness.

While some women feel liberated by shouting about an abortion, when we are forgiven by the Lord, that is true liberation. We are set free from the worst master: selfishness. We are liberated from the bonds of sin. We are free to be who God created us to be through His Son.

In reality, everyone who is a Christian can remove the word “abortion” from that hashtag and replace it with a myriad of sins. #ShoutYourLustForgiveness. #ShoutYourCursingForgiveness. #ShoutYourBitternessForgiveness. #ShoutYourCoveteousnessForgiveness. #ShoutYourLyingForgiveness. #ShoutYourPornographyForgiveness. #ShoutYourPrideForgiveness.

Because as God’s people, we all have something from which we needed to be saved. Thankfully, through His mercy, grace, and love, God forgave us. He set us free. He liberated us.

And that’s something worth shouting!

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AUTHOR: Adam Faughn

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