So we have a new stabbing; this one in London. One dead and five were seriously injured. Using the prevailing sentiment among the liberal elitists I suppose we need to ban all knives, meat cleavers, and swords in order to stop it.
Uh . . . Did any of these geniuses consider that the weapon just might not be the problem here?
Early in my career I developed a system for problem solving. First I would identify the problem; next I would try to resolve it; and lastly I would try to put something in place that would prevent it from happening again.
So to begin this problem solving experiment. First let’s identify the problem, so ask yourself:
- Is the problem with terrorism due to guns, or a religion that consists of fanatics who are determined to kill everyone who does not have a belief system identical to theirs?
- Is the problem of thousands of murders in Chicago and other big cities due to guns, or is it poverty, drugs, and absent fathers?
One problem we face is that our society has begun devaluing life. Recently I read that in New York City a dead homeless man was located on a bench near a restaurant. Thirty people were in line to get a cronut breakfast, and none seemed fazed by it. One lady tweeted: Only mildly surprised that the very visible dead body of a homeless person seemed to not phase the thirty people in the cronut line.
I remember when I was a street person and definitely not a Christian, I encountered a dead homeless man who had probably frozen to death in the streets after passing out drunk the night before. I simply stepped over the dead body and kept walking without giving it a second thought. It was many years later and only after I became a Christian that this came to mind to haunt me.
Hmmm . . .
Yesterday I spoke to what amounts to a modern day genocide in the killing of what Hillary Clinton describes as unborn persons who have no rights using abortion as the murder weapon. As a follower of Jesus what should we be doing concerning this issue, or for that matter the issue of poverty, drugs, and absent fathers. God has a suggestion: “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves . . . defend the rights of the poor and needy” Proverbs 31:8-9.
Speak up? Defend? Oh I could never do that, there is too much division.
News Flash: Christ brings division! Get over it. You are either on the side of the Lord or against Him. One cannot sit on the fence and ride this out. I urge you to speak out today regardless of peer pressure and being politically correct. “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves . . . defend the rights of the poor and needy” Unborn persons molded in the womb by God are needy and they need someone to defend them; those trapped in poverty are poor and needy; those who are addicted are needy; those who mourn are needy; those in prison are needy. It all boils down to love and God is love.
Are you Christ minded and on the side of love?
Matt: 10:34
Do not assume that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn ‘A man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me; and anyone who does not take up his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me. A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’ Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for My sake will find it . . .
August 4 2016 – Click here to listen