It is difficult to find words when I witness something as horrific as the massacre of innocents at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut yesterday. There ARE no words that will ever bring comfort or understanding to the parents who sent their children to school yesterday morning without fear that those children would never come home again. All I or anyone can do is pray to the only one who understands why. And the only one is God almighty. I have not made it a secret that I am a Christian. I am a born again, washed in the blood, baptized believer in the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. If that offends you then I don't advice you to read my blog. I am tired of being politically correct and trying not to offend people. Atheists and those who don't believe certainly don't care about my rights or if I'm offended by their hate speech towards Christians, so I'm not going to care anymore either.
Mass shootings and killings are becoming an epidemic. When I was a child, no one would have dreamed that such a thing could ever take place. No one would have believed you if you told them that thirty years in the future, kindergarten children would be shot down in their own classroom. I contribute all of the violence to one main source. Lack of gun control, you say? No. A madman who is hell bent on killing people will make a bomb out of fertilizer (Oklahoma) or high jack an airplane full of jet fuel (9/11) if death is his intention. Guns are not the problem. It is, my friends, the lack of God. We have sat idly by while people like Madalyin Murray O'Hair, successfully had prayer removed from our schools and from public functions, from government buildings. This is a woman who tried to defect to Russia. An admitted Marxist. And our country, our government and its people let it happen. If the young man who committed this unspeakable act had heard prayer in school, he might have had a very different life and I would not be posting this right now. Say what you will and mock me if you want, but I know the power of prayer and the power of God. I have seen it in my own life. Prayer changes things.
And so I say, "Shame on you," I say that to myself, to my fellow Christians and to my fellow Americans. When we allowed God to be removed from our schools, we allowed Satan to step in. Take away light and all you have is darkness. A heart and mind that has been exposed to the love of Christ could never do what that man did to those little children. If you do not believe in God's presence, I hope you do now that you see what his absence has wrought. I urge you all to teach your children to pray. Let them see you pray. Let them know that there is a God. They will not be exposed to God or prayer in school, so it is up to us to make sure they are exposed to it at our homes and churches.
I think I'm through with my rant for now. I will close with this prayer and ask you all to say one as well for the families who lost their loved ones on December 14, 2012.
Father in Heaven,
You are the only one who can bring comfort to those who grieve. I pray you will wrap your arms of mercy and grace around them all. May they know the peace that can only come from the knowledge that their babies are in your arms now and that they will see them again one day, I pray, Lord, that you bring healing to their broken hearts and that the deaths of these innocents will not be in vain and your people will rise up and declare that we will not take your absence from our schools any longer. In the holy name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.
Mass shootings and killings are becoming an epidemic. When I was a child, no one would have dreamed that such a thing could ever take place. No one would have believed you if you told them that thirty years in the future, kindergarten children would be shot down in their own classroom. I contribute all of the violence to one main source. Lack of gun control, you say? No. A madman who is hell bent on killing people will make a bomb out of fertilizer (Oklahoma) or high jack an airplane full of jet fuel (9/11) if death is his intention. Guns are not the problem. It is, my friends, the lack of God. We have sat idly by while people like Madalyin Murray O'Hair, successfully had prayer removed from our schools and from public functions, from government buildings. This is a woman who tried to defect to Russia. An admitted Marxist. And our country, our government and its people let it happen. If the young man who committed this unspeakable act had heard prayer in school, he might have had a very different life and I would not be posting this right now. Say what you will and mock me if you want, but I know the power of prayer and the power of God. I have seen it in my own life. Prayer changes things.
And so I say, "Shame on you," I say that to myself, to my fellow Christians and to my fellow Americans. When we allowed God to be removed from our schools, we allowed Satan to step in. Take away light and all you have is darkness. A heart and mind that has been exposed to the love of Christ could never do what that man did to those little children. If you do not believe in God's presence, I hope you do now that you see what his absence has wrought. I urge you all to teach your children to pray. Let them see you pray. Let them know that there is a God. They will not be exposed to God or prayer in school, so it is up to us to make sure they are exposed to it at our homes and churches.
I think I'm through with my rant for now. I will close with this prayer and ask you all to say one as well for the families who lost their loved ones on December 14, 2012.
Father in Heaven,
You are the only one who can bring comfort to those who grieve. I pray you will wrap your arms of mercy and grace around them all. May they know the peace that can only come from the knowledge that their babies are in your arms now and that they will see them again one day, I pray, Lord, that you bring healing to their broken hearts and that the deaths of these innocents will not be in vain and your people will rise up and declare that we will not take your absence from our schools any longer. In the holy name of Jesus Christ, I pray. Amen.
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