Please pray with me:
Heavenly Father,
The blame game is in full swing. The Second Amendment pros and cons are screaming from the rooftop. The second agendas are in full bloom, full swing and full voice. Yet, You are God. Thank You. You see the beginning from the end.
You are a God of justice. You love our children, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, teachers, first responders ...much more than we do...more than we can fathom. You too grieve at the loss at Parkland High, Sandyhook Elementary, Columbine High School...truly not one of them has escaped Your notice.
In the midst of our grief, You are the God who knows our sorrows. You are the God who hears our cry. We are sick at the Parkland shooting...as yet again we see more senseless loss of life. Families are forever changed.
Thank You that You never change.
Malachi 3:6We are consumed with our grief and we likely do not stop to see Your grief. I'm sorry. You suffer deep loss as well.
For I am the Lord, I change not;
Psalm 127:3We want to blame...we need a scapegoat:
Lo, children are an heritage of the Lord: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
I'm so sorry, but not much has changed from the beginning of time.
Genesis 3:12Forgive us. We are so distraught that we want to lash out and blame anyone, anything, anybody that we see in our path. We join together, we band together with anyone who will stand with us—or allow us to stand with them. We point our finger, and join in the chant...at whatever comes our way. In this case, the obvious scapegoat is gun-control.
“And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.”
We don't know how to draw the line:
Father, we are so distraught that we could not stand it, if we realized that indeed, we are the problem. We are to blame. We can not bear to consider that we are guilty, we are at fault.
Yet, if we truly want to solve this problem, we must find the strength and the courage to look deep inside of us and realize that this matter began many, many years ago...when we turned from the safety of Your Word. We turned from Your guidance and determined that we have the answers.
Your Word clearly tells us how to draw the line. Yet, we have determined that we know better. We pushed Your Word out of our schools. WE decided that WE know better.
Forgive us. Have mercy on us. Grant us wisdom and strength to return to Your Word and find the lines that You set before us. Grant us the realization that You did this for our safety and for the safety of our children. We cannot find truth by ourselves. We cannot find the line by ourselves. We need Your help.
Help us to realize that we instigated these changes and help us to connect the dots to see the ramifications of taking control into our own hands without Your guidance.
We are a nation in rebellion:
Father, we refuse to draw the line in accordance with Your Word. Without Your guidance, mental illness has run rampage. Self-control has no boundaries.
The list goes on, and we refuse to take ownership that we have set up the circumstances that allow this horrible situation to perpetuate.
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We pushed You out of the schools.
We put laws in place to support the killing of unborn children.
We have undermined Your definition of family.
We indulge ourselves without regard for the consequences. And when the ugly consequences loom before us, we blame someone, or something else. We hold ourselves as righteous.
Forgive us. Cpen our eyes that we may turn our hearts to You. Strengthen our hearts to take responsibility for our actions. Grant us wisdom to find the line, and adjust our laws in a way that secures our land.
Help Lord,
That we may be found sober, diligent, and faithful in the day of His coming,
In Jesus' Name,
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