May 26, 2022 – Click here to listen
So what would cause a young man to go into a school and murder 19 kids and two teachers? Opinions are coming in from all over the world. It seems that the majority are saying it is the lack of gun control. Many look to the government and politicians for solutions. Indeed as this story broke, the politicians crawled out of their various holes and emerged from under their rocks to espouse their various plans to take away the right to keep and bear arms as stipulated in the 2nd amendment. My opinion is that we as a nation have turned our backs on God and He in turn has turned His on us and the manifestation of the sin was shown through this horrible tragedy.
I have prayed for the families but cannot adequately embrace their grief and pain of losing their innocent child and loved ones. I have asked my God not to allow me to outlive any of my sons. The pain would be near unbearable. We must do a better job in protecting kids and others who die at the hands of criminals and deranged people, but I don’t believe for a moment that this problem can be regulated away. Today one can access the internet and learn how to make a bomb out of common materials found in an ordinary hardware store. Since the dawn of time, beginning with Cain and Able humankind has found ways to murder using a stone, sword, poison, guns, bombs, or whatever means necessary.
The answer of course lies in following God and not the world. Satan has been a murderer from the beginning and is the father of all lies. He is responsible for the shootings and the blood and mayhem. Alas the world doesn’t seem to look to God for the solution and instead try to find some two bit politician to solve the problems of pure evil which confront us. Celebrities offer their opinions, talking heads on news programs, and radicals of every flavor spit their venom at law abiding gun owners who could not ever even envision going into a school and murdering innocent little children.
Whoopie Goldberg said she would punch someone if she heard someone say their thoughts and prayers are with the families just one more time. Well bring it on Whoopie because that is exactly what I’m saying and in my mind it is what is needed in this evil world. I watched the movie John Wick the other night and I would imagine he killed perhaps a hundred or more people during the movie. When I was at the airport a couple of days ago I saw a little kid that was probably 8 years old playing a video game and was shooting people coming from every direction. Violence is glorified at every turn and I believe that people have begun to devalue life.
I’m not saying that all gun laws are wrong, just the opposite. No deranged person should get their hands on a gun, nor should criminals. But I want a gun for protection and I want them for hunting. I’m no different than the hundreds of millions of other law abiding folks that own guns for similar purpose.
The solution lies in the return to God for a society that has abandoned Him. I once told my brother that if he turned his back on God there was a real danger that God would turn His back on Him. He used a gun to commit suicide. It was not the gun that was the problem, he could have just as easily hung himself. What happened to him and what is happening to this country is caused by a departure from the God of peace and love. Pray for revival and a return to God.
Ecclesiastes 9:18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.