My heart breaks over this latest shooting, the one that claimed the lives of 20 children and 28 overall at the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut. I have a son in kindergarten, and I cannot imagine seeing him off to school and later than day losing my son in such a senseless tragedy. I am grieved over the direction this country is headed and alarmed at the continued acts of violence. Sadly we no longer are caught by surprise, but instead live in unease wondering where it will happen next. What is most alarming is each shooting seems to be more and more evil as if the gates of hell are being unleashed and get stronger each time.
Most though are incorrectly thinking the issue is about better gun control or getting more treated for mental health. Yes, if no one had guns theoretically you would not have mass shootings. However, this is not just a matter of one or two nuts losing it and since they had a gun then they became a menace. This is a symptom of a country that is out of control, forgetting and numbing it's moral compass, and quickly spiraling out of control. 100% gun removal and Prozac in the water will not fix the country. Instead of removing the guns, we need to realize America has removed God. As in the Lord Jesus Christ, who created the heaven and the earth.
Right now, police are busy looking for a motive for the killer. Does it matter? Let's say something terrible happened --- he was abused by the husband of a teacher there, or his school bullied him and no one did anything about it. It does not matter. People can choose how to respond to injustices in life. People can blame the abuse and live their whole lives bitter for how their lives turn out or they can look to the God that promises to make all unfairness and tragedies work out for his glory and good if we trust him. We don't have to be victims. We don't have to get revenge. We don't have to live repressing anger and hurts and then when someone gets on our last nerve, it is ok then to snap. But we cannot do it in our own power. America, when will you realize the path you are on is leading to more and more destruction? What is it going to take to get you to wake up? And church, do you care yet? Or is this just one more reason to cocoon ourselves and hide behind church doors and keep being be a pew potato.
We live in a sin cursed world, but originally that was not the case. God put Adam in charge before sin entered in. The world was one that was created perfect. When the actual head of all the human race, Adam and Eve, literally sinned it literally brought death into this world, and the devil became the god of this world in that moment. We are born on the devil's team, and the devil goes about seeking whom he can devour, working in the children of disobedience and blinding their minds. The same spirit that produces the suicide bombers in Iraq and the middle east is the same spirit producing the mass shootings in the rest of the world.
We either are carrying out the desires of our flesh and hence the devils desires, or after we are saved yielding to God and fulfilling the desires God wants us to have. It is that simple. You naturally serve yourself and your desires. If you fill your head with enough wickedness and violence and continue to harbour evil and anger and hurts it is not so much "the devil made me do it" as your heart wants and wants and is never satisfied and hatred and murder are the natural fruits. Think of it as indirect demonic influence. The only hope one has for the evils in his heart is to be born again and have his sins forgiven and his guilt removed. And then to walk in that freedom and let God live through you. To be forgiven much produces much love.
The alternative is the modern medicine which says it is a disease or a disorder and you only have to blame your parents or take this medicine or take this therapy. It makes you a helpless victim. You are forever doomed. However anger and hatred are sins. They can be repented of. There is hope because if you are the one responsible you have control over your actions, and your destiny. In the sense you cannot save yourself, but you can look to the one that does the saving if you will take responsibility and see your actions as wrong. The Bible is our moral compass and kicking that book out has taken our accountability away. We think we are our own god's now and accountable to no one. That is a lie, right from the devil. But Jesus is the TRUTH!
Jesus is soon returning to reclaim his earthly kingdom, but now is the time to look for the way out. Jesus said "I AM THE WAY." He is THE and THE ONLY WAY and only hope we have. The problem is the world is not looking to him and America is not looking to him because most in the church do not look to him. Most of us professing Christians deny the very God we claim to believe in on a daily basis.
Our country is in trouble because it's churches are in trouble. The heathen have no fear of God because professing Christians have no fear of God. There are no restraints in the minds of men, and there are no restraints in the church house either. God's people would before live for God and wouldn't tolerate sin in their neighborhoods, and took a stand for God and a stand for holiness and God's blessings would overflow and touch everybody else. Now we are in a pressure cooker. We don't look to God to save us, we look to more gun laws or we look to medicating our children or we look to homeland security. We don't need the government to take away more of our rights. We have a right to bear arms, and it was set up to protect us from the government becoming corrupt. We have a right to defend our homes.
200 years ago, did people have guns? Yes. Texas teenagers would have loaded shotguns in the back of their pick up trucks 50 years ago. There was a day you did not lock your door. Did they go and have shooting rampages? The best offense is a good defense. You don't protect a country and it's people by becoming effeminate and disarming and turning our guns back to the government. The government today is using any senseless tragedy to take more and more of our rights away. It wants a police state. It wants people in fear and having no one to look to but them. It wants you neutralized and helpless and dependent on them. If they feed you they own you.
Folks gun control never made a difference. The shooters at Columbine broke 13 gun laws. More laws are not the answer. More God is. Where was God in this latest shooting? America you kicked him out of your school! He is not allowed there! Prayer is not welcome there! Do you like the fruit of that decision? Now it is too late, but America you don't want him anyway, but you will take comfort from the government promising to protect you. They don't want to protect you, they want you a slave. Jesus is the truth and only the truth can set you free.
We need God to restrain our wicked and sinful and lustful hearts. We need to get back to the God our country was founded upon--- and that is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Even better than God's restraint is the fact that anyone that gets saved God's way becomes a new creature with a new heart and new desires. Most churches today produce false converts, who come to God with selfish motives and for what God has and not WHO he is. Jesus is God and is worthy of our worship and worthy to surrender our lives to. When you see you broke his laws -- lust is adultery, hatred is murder, and one lie makes you a liar -- you can see your need for him. Then repent --turn with all your heart from your sin to the Lord Jesus-- and trust him to save you. You don't need medication more than you need eternal medicine dispensed by Jesus the great physician. You don't need a shrink you need Jesus the wonderful counselor. You don't need booze you need the Bible. You don't need whiskey, you need to drink of Jesus the living water. Our country needs Jesus plain and simple.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
It starts with you my friend. Do you see your need for him?
