Saturday, April 21, 2007 "America is bleeding again"

Saturday, April 21, 2007

"America is bleeding again"

From Julie's Keyboard:

What we are, what we should be, or what we can become....

I heard an interesting remark that seemed well put as I was watching a movie this week dealing with the Amish people.
A man was being questioned by legal authorities about evil atrocities that had affected he and his people. The man tried to explain that he had forgiven whoever the transgressor was, though he was unknown. He tried to share with the questioner just how the law of love should work in the life of a believer.

When posed with the question of "Why do you think someone could do something this evil?", the man simply responded with "We do not seek to understand evil. For that which we try to understand, we risk becoming."

Wow, what a loaded statement! Could life really be so simply calculated and put into perspective in this way? After all, who made things so complicated? After some meditation on these remarks, I came to the conclusion that this man was correct.

Are we not guilty of giving far more effort in regard to analyzing and breaking down problems instead of a steady focus on the answers and what is right?

Just something to ponder....

"Man's goings are of the Lord; how can a man then understand his own way?"

Proverbs 20:24

Have a blessed week!

Julie

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Personal Note: Our nation bleeds again, our hearts are heavy with the weight of grief as we once again have stood and watched the face of evil rise before us. We may have never been to Blacksburg, Virginia or even know anyone from Virginia Tech, yet our hearts hurt and our tears flow because we know we have lost a part of our nation in the lives of those young men and women and those who instructed them.

Our news media is filled with those asking the question “Why?” and those trying to answer. One says “if everyone had a gun,” another says “if no one had a gun,” and then there’s everything in-between.

I watch the convocation and hear the Muslim, the Buddhist, and others give their wisdom, but even when the Christian stands to speak for the God of the Bible I do not hear the Name of Christ, it cannot be spoken, because it might offend.

When I hear all the wisdom of our age pouring forth, I can’t help but wonder what our founders would think, what they would say.

Many times as I read their writings it is almost as if they are speaking right to us at our time and we will not listen. It was their inspired ideas that gave birth to our nation, can these inspired ideas not sustain us and strengthen us, direct us in our destiny?

David

“Webster, The Schoolmaster of our Republic. . . . has left us a standard of the English language which will guide all successive ages. . . . In this sense, Noah Webster is the all shaping, all controlling mind of this hemisphere.

He grew up with his country and he molded the intellectual character of her people. Not a man has sprung from her soil on whom he has not laid his all forming hand.

His principles of language have tinged every sentence that is now, or will ever be uttered by an American tongue. . . . Only two men have stood on the New World whose fame is so sure to last, Columbus, its discoverer; and Washington, its savior. Webster is, and will be its great teacher; and these three make our trinity of fame.” - - - - William G. Webster, A Speller and Definer (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Comopany, 1845), Foreword.

"In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children under a free government ought to be instructed. . . . No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people." Webster, Letters, p. 453, to David McClure on October 25, 1836.

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles, which enjoins humility, piety and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of governments." Webster, History of the United States, p. 300.

"The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. . . . All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible." Webster, History of the United States, p. 339.

America 2007:

A Christian student has been punished by his Michigan high school for demonstrating opposition to a school event celebrating the homosexual lifestyle

A former Department of Justice official says a Minnesota college is rolling out the welcome mat for Muslim religious expression while demonstrating hostility toward the mildest forms of Christian religious expression.

The founder of a Minnesota-based ministry is attributing political correctness and fear as likely factors behind a Minneapolis college's decision to give in to the demands of Islamic students to install special facilities for a Muslim religious practice.

After agreeing to dismiss trespassing charges against two members of the Gideons International missionary organization for handing out Bibles on a sidewalk earlier this year, the State of Florida has now charged the men under a different statute for that same incident.

America, are we listening?