God’s first instruction to mankind in Genesis 1:28 was and is beautiful in its simplicity: “Be fruitful and multiply.”

We were called to treasure babies born in His image and likeness as precious gifts and revere all His human creations right up to their natural death.

Woe to Canada for brazenly flouting the Lord’s divine precepts.

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Our nation unceasingly launches metaphorical spit into Our Creator's eyes with the endless preborn babies we abort and vulnerable citizens we euthanize.

Perhaps a reminder is required about Who exactly this country is paying a grave insult.

Bishop Scott McCaig, the shepherd of the Roman Catholic Military Ordinariate of Canada, presented a potent illustration of God’s immeasurable power during a recent Catholic men’s conference.

The former General Superior of the Companions of the Cross proclaimed that “God is infinite, without limit, boundary or end. He’s spaceless, unchangeable and undying,” and he “holds everything in being from moment to moment without effort. He can strike the universe from existence without effort.”

What should one make of our country malevolently choosing to affront the most powerful being in the universe every single day without fail? To put it mildly, it is an ill-advised course.

Blessedly, many countrymen and women do exhibit proper reverence for God and His love of a world teeming with abundant life. The thousands of pro-life champions who assembled on Parliament Hill or in front of governmental buildings across this vast domain for the National March for Life on March 14 deserve our deepest admiration.

They are dogged men, women and children who refuse to submissively accept the malignant culture of death before them, and instead they choose to fight for a world that could be.

Each of them would never dare to diminish God and His power in their minds. They remain steadfast in the knowledge that their infinitely creative Lord is the sole author of what is to come, and He performs His greatest miracles when situations appear beyond hopeless.

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Conversely, professed Christians who believe the fight for safeguarding the sanctity of life was lost decades ago, and any resistance to the secular anti-life doctrine is a pointless endeavour, are treating God as a shrunken entity. Instead of embracing His plan of abundance and hope, they submit to Satan’s pathetic “vision” of scarcity and despair.

It bears repeating that we are foolhardy to suggest there are limits on a limitless God.

For decades, mainstream media, academia and popular entertainment crowed that Christianity was in rapid decline and verging on cultural irrelevance.

But thanks to the flowing power of the Holy Spirit awakening a renewed yearning for truth and deeper meaning among countless young and old alike — and opening their eyes to the emptiness of the postmodern landscape — a revival in Christianity ignited. Mass attendance is soaring, and record numbers of people are being welcomed into the Church.

Remarkably, this renaissance is unfolding in Canada at a juncture when the federal government is revealing an especially unsettling level of institutional antagonism against faith-driven individuals and entities. The clause in the Combatting Hate Act, Bill C-9, calling for the sincere religious speech defence in Canada’s hate speech laws to be expunged, represents perhaps the severest assault on Canadian religious expression in history.

We can take comfort in the knowledge that any effort to derail God’s plans for renewal will fail.

If God is manifesting a religious revival against the patterns of our fallen world, why should we doubt His ability to conceive a culture of life renewal? He is already putting the pieces into place.

According to a multitude of recent studies, Generation Z Catholics and Christians are proving to be more religiously committed than the generations before them, and their faith is drawing many of them to adopt pro-life beliefs. The prospect of them passing these ideals to their offspring is exciting indeed.

And God may use the portended consequences of the ever-growing fertility crisis – severe labour shortages, economic contraction, collapsing healthcare systems and cultural erosion – to awaken an urgency and desire within us to procreate and heal the world.

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Or He could accomplish this feat with a countless number of other avenues because He is God and His ways are higher than our ways.

Pray fervently for Canada to come back to Him and accept His inaugural directive to be fruitful and multiply.