ALL SOHLS DAY

NO, I DIDN’T SPELL “SOULS” WRONG. Today is SOHLS that is Sanctity of Human Life Sunday. Sanctity of Human Life Sunday is the Sunday closest to the infamous passing of Roe v. Wade has been designated as the Sunday where we stop to remember the sanctity of human life. All human life!

     The focus in churches around America today will be on the importance of speaking up and out for the little lives that cannot speak for themselves. It is a day for us to remember that we are all created to bear forth the image of God, and it is that truth that demands that all life is sacred.

     Sacred are the lives of the unborn and of the aged.  Sacred are the lives which society says are “perfect” and of those which society says are disabled. Sacred are the lives which can add to the community and of those which seem only able to take from the community. All human life is sacred, even the life of your enemy.

     This truth is made alive in the Person of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul wrote to the church in Colossae, “Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.” (Colossians 1:21) Yes, we were enemies of God and He loved us still. Paul wrote to the church in Rome, “For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to Him through the death of His Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through His life!” (Romans 5:10)

     Not only were we created by God, but we were rescued by Him as well.  It is because this great salvation that we the church are to be about the work of saving lives. That saving is not just getting people forgiven and into heaven, but it also includes working here to see that all those created in His image come to know God’s sacred call upon them.

     Therefore, on the All SOHLS Day, let us recommit ourselves to carry forth the ministry which Christ Himself called us, the ministry of reconciliation, (2 Corinthians 5:18-21) and let us daily proclaim in word and deed the sanctity of life!