The Right to a New Life

Much attention is given to the ongoing controversy of abortion. The arguments seem to side along two important rights, the rights of the mother and the rights of the unborn child. We contend for the right to life, where both mother and child are determined to have this right!

The “right to life” movement promotes the cause of the unborn; every child has a right to live! Their passion to preserve life provides an inspiration to others in the ongoing debate. While I am certainly in sympathy with the objectives of this movement, I prefer to direct my energies to an even more important right – the right to New Life!

Every individual born into this world has a right to a new life. The plan of God and the purpose of Calvary were to provide an opportunity to eradicate the pain of death and power of sin for all mankind. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life” (Jn. 3:16, emphasis mine). Jesus emphatically stated, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly” (Jn. 10:10). You have a God-given right – the right to a new life!

The curse of sin and death eats like a cancer on the souls of humanity. Judgment of sin demands a painful penalty. “It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment” (Heb. 9:27). Natural life is a progression of days to your final hour and inescapable death. More fearful is the certain knowledge of our final accountability before a sinless God. Such is the life of one without the new life Christ has promised.

Jesus said, “He who hears my word and believes in Him who sent me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life” (John 5:24). Our greatest hope, our only hope is to come to faith in Christ, be born again of the water and of the Spirit, and to experience the new life it brings (John 3:3-4). “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (2 Cor. 5:17).

According to the promises of the Scripture everyone has this wonderful option, the right to life, a new life in Christ!