What Should We Expect?

Isaiah 3:9   Amplified Bible (AMP)

 Their respecting of persons and showing of partiality witnesses against them; they proclaim their sin like Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to them! For they have brought evil [as a reward upon themselves].

Sick. Sick, sick, sick. That’s how I feel about what happened in Newtown, Connecticut last week. That is also how I feel about the fact of how blind this nation as whole really is in regards to evil. I just watched HLN interview a child psychologist and ask, “How do we talk to our children about this. What do we tell them?” It makes me sick as a pastor to sit and listen to explanations that have no reference to the evil that is so deeply rooted in this society. When will people come to the knowledge of the truth? Better yet, when will people finally believe it? Did you know that over the past three years in Chicago there were two hundred and sixty kids killed in their public schools? Not all at once of course but still tragic. That does not grip us as much as these all killed at one time but it is every bit as tragic! Hundreds of children die each year at the hands of murderers, many of them killed by their own parents. What should we expect? When a nation tries to regulate the murder of children by calling it prochoice why should we expect God to be merciful toward us? The question is not why does God allow things like this to happen, the real question we should be asking is what have we done in order to deserve it? I agree with President Obama, we need to change as he said in an interview yesterday.

Here is what we can learn from all this. There is a deep spiritual problem in this country as well as in the world. Society as a whole does not want to face the truth. The truth is we have turned our backs on God. We have refused to acknowledge Him. We ignore His attempts to reach us and make fun of those who try to tell us about Him. In all the research in trying to place the blame on why this happened there is one that you will not hear his name mentioned; Satan. We will blame it on the guy’s mental health, his childhood, his relationship with his mom, the guns he had access to, and on and on. You will not hear anything about his spirituality. What you will not hear the mainstream administration and media consider is the influence of Satan upon our nation. When a people turn from God they turn to Satan; whether they want to believe it or not. How many evil acts will it take to wake us up? When will we seek the real truth?

Here is what to tell your kids. Tell them about God. Tell them about the evil that is rampant in society. Tell them about Jesus. That is, if you know Him. We cannot regulate evil and we will never be able to legislate righteousness. Jesus is our only hope. When we place our trust and faith in Him we will have a better understanding of why He came.