Finally, The Truth on National TV when
Billy Graham's daughter was being interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson
asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (Referring
to the September 11th Attack)
And Anne Graham gave an
extremely profound and insightful response. She said "I believe that God is
deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to
get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our
lives. And being the gentleman that He is, I believe that God has calmly backed
out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we
demand that He leave us alone?"
I know there’s been a lot
of an email going around in regards to 9/11/01, but this really makes you think.
If you don't have time, at least skim through it, but the bottom line is
something to think about....
In light of recent
events...terrorist attacks, school shootings, etc.
Let's see, I think it
started when Madeline Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body was found
recently) complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then, someone said you
better not read the Bible in school... the Bible that says thou shalt not kill,
thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said, OK.
Then, Dr. Benjamin Spock
said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little
personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's
son committed suicide) and we said, an expert should know what he's talking
about so we said OK.
Then, someone said teachers
and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And the
school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a
student when they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we
surely don't want to be sued (There's big difference between disciplining and
touching, beating, smacking, humiliating, kicking, etc.) And we said, OK.
Then someone said, let's let
our daughters have abortions if they want, and they won't even have to tell
their parents. And we said, OK.
Then some wise school board
member said, since boys will be boys and they're going to do it anyway, let's
give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they
desire, and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we
said, OK.
Then some of our top elected
officials said it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our
jobs. And agreeing with them, we said it doesn't matter to me what anyone,
including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy
is good.
And then someone said let's
print magazines with pictures of nude women and call it wholesome, down-to-earth
appreciation for the beauty of the female body. And we said, OK.
And then someone else took
that appreciation a step further and published pictures of nude children and
then stepped further still by making them available on the internet. And we said
OK, they're entitled to their free speech.
And then the entertainment
industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence,
and illicit sex. And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder,
suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it's just entertainment, it has no adverse
effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead.
Now we're asking ourselves
why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and
why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about
it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.
I think it has a great deal
to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
"Dear God, Why didn't
you save the little girl killed in her classroom? " Sincerely, Concerned
Student... AND THE REPLY "Dear Concerned Student, I am not allowed in
schools". Sincerely, God.
Funny how simple it is for
people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we
believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.
Funny how everyone wants to
go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything
the Bible says.
Funny how someone can say
"I believe in God" but still follow Satan who, by the way, also
"believes" in God.
Funny how we are quick to
judge but not to be judged.
Funny how you can send a
thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you
start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.
Funny how the lewd, crude,
vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyberspace, but the public discussion of
God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Funny how someone can be so
fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the
week.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you go to
forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because
you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it
to them. Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me
than what God thinks of me.
Are you thinking?
Pass
it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it....no one will know
that you did. But, if you discard this thought process, then don't sit back and
complain about what a bad shape the world is in!