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November DevotionalGal. 6:9"And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." —Galatians 6:9 I am closing in on my sixth year as Director of the Alpha Women's Center and I never dreamed we would be averaging 212 clients per month. The days can get quite hectic, many times seeing 15 or more clients in a day. This past spring, after a couple of months of more than a few difficult peer-counseling sessions, I wondered if I was able to continue in this ministry. One client needed to talk about her abortion from two decades ago and was now suffering the emotional consequences. Within two days, two clients who had had positive pregnancy tests here at the Center returned, and had aborted those pregnancies. These babies had been in my presence just a few short months ago and now they were gone. It felt like someone had punched me in the stomach, not once, but twice! Teenagers living on their own, women in abusive relationships who feel they must abort, young teens on birth control, mothers pressuring their daughters to abort, a woman who has had three abortions and claims to suffer no ill effects, grandmothers whose daughters are incarcerated and need help for their grandbabies, women choosing abortion over adoption. Not only this, but my day starts driving to the Center past a high school for pregnant teens. I see them waddling into school with their protruding bellies and wonder if they have visited the Center. I then begin praying for them and for the day at the Center. Yes, I had become weary. Then I was reading my devotional for the day and it talked about Noah and his family and how they lived in a wicked world. They could have chosen to live wickedly for there would be no one to stop them. The rest of the world was wicked and not only would they not have said anything, but probably invited them to join in the wickedness. But Noah and his family knew God and listened to God. Yes, the days can get weary when you get a daily dose of the depravity in this world and many of our clients are swallowed up in it. Simply put, they need the Lord. We can try as we might with earthly measures to solve or ease their difficulties but their greatest need is to be saved from God's wrath, be free from the power of sin and to be made right with God. Our prayer is that they will come to know Jesus Christ as their Savior and when they are surrounded by wickedness, they will listen to the One who loves us beyond measure. The Lord has placed a burden on the hearts of those who labor at the Centers and He will sustain us when the days get weary. There is a balm in Gilead Sometimes I feel discouraged —Holly Hickey |
