A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and thinks “the world is prettier now” than it was under communism, his wife said Sunday.
Gertruda Grzebska, 63, said that for years she fed her husband Jan carefully with a spoon and moved his body to prevent bed sores.
“For 19 years he did not move or say anything,” Grzebska told The Associated Press by phone. “He tried to say things but it couldn’t be understood. Sometimes we pretended we understood.”
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This kind of devotion to one’s spouse is sadly missing today’s culture of instant gratification where no-fault divorce is heralded as a convenient solution to an inconvenient marriage. Jesus said, “whoever divorces his wife for any reason except sexual immorality causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a woman who is divorced commits adultery” (Matthew 5:32).
I do not know if the Grzebskas are Christians or not, but I do know that Gertruda has demonstrated a faithfulness to her husband that is very-much absent from the attitudes of people today. War is being waged upon our culture. The long-held traditional, biblical values of the home, marriage, and family are under direct attack. Just look at the media and what is reported on the news! Husbands are made to look like fumbling idiots, the independent, rebellious woman who will not stay at home (c.f. Proverbs 7:11) is lauded, and the breakup of the home and family is actually celebrated in many instances these days!
Women, who need help raising and caring for an unplanned child in their lives, are summarily dismissed and encouraged to murder their defenseless child prior to his or her birth, lest the baby’s face be seen and the woman’s sensibilities be aroused. There is a small lake near where I live, and on nice days like today I like to go for a walk around the lake. Canadian geese nest there each year. Now that it is Spring there are many goslings milling about with their parents. Papa and mama goose see me as a threat when I walk by and start to hiss. The first time this happened it was slightly alarming, but then I though, This is a goose. What is it going to do? Hiss me to death? Their hissing doesn’t bother me anymore. However, it does give me pause to think. These geese are practically defenseless. If I were to take one of the goslings, there is not much they could do but peck at me. That is more than the baby in the womb is capable of doing. If we are to show mercy to animals, whose only defense might be pecking, how much more so are we to show mercy to people who are utterly defenseless!
We have traded value of commitment and the value of life for selfish convenience. Yes, the victimization of women through rape, incest, etc. is highly unfortunate, but why protect the rapist by putting him in prison, rather than executing him, and murder the innocent child? Before anyone says, “Ah, but the Sixth Commandment says not to kill,” consider this: The Sixth Commandment says, “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13). There is a difference between killing and murdering. Killing is a generic term for the taking of any life for any reason. Murder is premeditated and done with malicious intent. If simply killing were a sin, that would mean that God commanded Old Testament Israel to sin by wiping out the inhabitants of the promised land.
If a woman does not have the help of family or church, a biblical alternative to murder is adoption. Yes, you would still have to endure the social shame (whatever remnant of it may still exist) of an illegitimate pregnancy, but is not the grace of God sufficient?
Concerning this [thorn in the flesh] I [the Apostle Paul] pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong. (2 Corinthians 12:8-10)
Not only do we need to remain committed to Christ, but we also need to remain committed to the cause of Christ and remain in the perfect law of liberty (James 1:25). Christ did not come to do away with the Law, but to fulfill it.
Do not think that I [Jesus] came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled. Whoever therefore breaks one of the least of these commandments, and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever does and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:17-19)
The moral law of God is still in effect, and so shall it be until the end of time because it is a reflection of the character of an unchanging God (Malachi 3:6). Jesus fulfilled the Law in that He satisfied the requirements of it. The penalty of sin is death (Genesis 2:17, Romans 6:23), and all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). We have all sinned, therefore the penalty for our sin is death. Jesus’ atoning sacrifice on the cross is a gift from God giving us eternal life (Romans 6:23). Jesus, God’s only begotten Son, lived a sinless life, and then died in your place. If you will accept His gift, then you are saved from an eternity in hell where there is weeping and great anguish to an eternity in heaven where there is great peace and joy.
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