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food for thought...
In light of the many perversions and jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this
is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke, it's not funny, it's
intended to get you thinking.
Billy
Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her
"How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding the attacks on Sept.
11).
Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.
She said "I believe 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 He
is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His
blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light
of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started
when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently)
complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said
OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school ... the
Bible 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). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said
OK.
Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline
our children when they misbehave. 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 a big
difference between disciplining, 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. 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.
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 further again by making them available on the
Internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to free speech.
Then the
entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote
profanity, violence, and illicit sex. 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, 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."
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 you can send '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 lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene
articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is
suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you
laughing?
Funny how when you 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. Funny how we can be more worried
about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know
you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain
about what bad shape the world is in!
