Abortion is a symptom of a shipwrecked society. Instead of sailing the deep waters of human dignity, valuing all people equally as made in the image of God, the hull is breached in the shallows of 330 million sharp rocks of individual autonomy—everyone doing whatever is right in his own eyes.

King David once said, “Reproach has broken my heart” but faith in God’s salvation caused him to yet say, “I will praise the name of God with song” (Ps. 69:20, 30). So, while pro-life people and organizations like CompassCare are being vilified, threatened, violently attacked, and treated like second-class citizens, we mourn not for ourselves but over the abuse of women and the destruction of vulnerable preborn boys and girls.

In Ezekiel, it appears that those who are marked for salvation are so because they grieve over the slaughter of innocent children. In the Bible, a mark upon the forehead symbolizes one’s allegiance. There are only two marks, only one of two allegiances a person can have: the mark of God as described in Ezekiel and elsewhere (Rev. 7:3, 9:4, 14:1) or the mark of the beast (Rev. 13;17; 14:9, 11). The mark of the beast is on the majority, those who forsake God’s ways to obey the organized governance of this world characterized as anti-Christ (Rev. 13:3; 16:2).

And the mark of God rests on the minority (Mt. 7:14). One way to tell if someone is marked by God is if they grieve over the sins of the people as God does. God through Isaiah says of the Savior, “He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted . . . to proclaim the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn” (Is. 61:1-2). This kind of sadness sheds new light on that Savior’s beatitude, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Mt. 5:4).

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