We ask for prayer in a time of crisis, in a time of distress
we see nothing wrong with our leaders standing before our nation asking for
everyone to pray. In fact, we encourage
that---we want that---we feel a sense of comfort when our leaders are seeking
God during difficult times. Yet when
times are good, when we are simply gathering for a ballgame or graduation, we
ask that no prayer is said unless it is being lead by a student, we question
whether we should mention God’s name or not---we wonder if we are crossing the
line between church and state. People
what are we doing? We can’t have it both
ways! We can’t live good days without
God and then expect Him to be at our beck and call on bad days. Now don’t get me wrong, I fully believe that
no matter how you are living, when you truly seek God, he will come to you, he
will hear you, and he will answer you, but God does not exist just to please
us. We exist because of God and it is us
that need to be living according to his guidance, his will! He is our Creator and we have to acknowledge
that daily, not occasionally!
What happened in Connecticut on Friday can never be
explained, it was pure evil that walked into that school, but having more gun
control policies, setting up a new committee, having more counselors, having a
stronger safety plan, nor installing a metal detector at every door could have
or will ever prevent things like this from happening. We are not humanly capable of stopping evil,
however, I know who is and that is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. There is a reason we call him Lord and there
is a reason we call him our Savior. He
is the only one that can save us from evil.
He is the light in the midst of all this darkness. We have people that want to blame God, yet it
is those people that never want to give him credit for good. Again, we can’t have it both ways!
We have to wake up to the call of God and we have to do it
now, for I feel very strongly that there is not a lot of time left. I have been saying we, meaning us as a nation,
but now I say we, meaning us as Christians.
We can no longer sit back, we have to stand and fight if we must for the
truth! Although I try to live everyday
as a Christian serving Jesus Christ, I also feel like I am not doing
enough. It seems that everyone thinks
that something major is about to happen in our world, and I see so many people
preparing for difficult times, but is that what it’s going to take to
survive. Shouldn’t we be preparing
ourselves spiritually more than physically?
As I watch people prepare and store up material things, I cannot help
but think of all the people that are lost, the people that don’t know the truth
or even refuse to see it. My concern is
more for them than even for my family and myself. I know that if something were to happen and
my family and I did not survive we would still be fine, because I know who we
serve, I know that we will one day be with Jesus, but my heart aches for those
that have not chosen Jesus. He is truly
the only way---he is the truth, the life and the way and I have no other choice
but to share that truth with everyone that comes across my path!
