I am feeling very discouraged about our country, my health, and the future. As I prayed about it the Lord said, “It is your choice.” I cannot change the destruction going on in America, I cannot heal my body, and I do not have any control over the future, but it is my choice in how I receive and accept what takes place.
How did America come to the condition it’s in? It was not like this when I grew up. So much hate! The attitude seems to be that when there is a disagreement of ideas or politics that many want to stop you from disagreeing with them in any way possible, even if it means, as a politician – taking away your freedoms, or as anyone else – taking your life.
I listen to the talk about “gun control” going on, and it reminds me of how I look at a problem on all my projects. First, we must identify what the problem really is. So, what is the problem when people kill other people? I relate it to my yard. When I see the weed growing in my lawn, I have three choices. I can just mow the top off and this way it looks like the lawn in the yard – until the top grows again. I haven’t done anything to remove the weed. Or, I can take the stem of the weed down to the bare ground, yet leaving the root underneath. This will require some direct effort on my part, but I still haven’t removed the weed. To remove the weed will require me to be determined to dig out the root. This will require me to keep watch over my yard, not allowing weeds to overtake my lawn.
Today we have politicians who just want to cut the top off the problem by saying we need gun control; take guns away – period – from citizens who obey the laws. This won’t stop killers who break laws. More laws won’t stop evil. Then there are others who just cut the stem down to the ground – who say this is a mental health problem and so we need figure out how to take these crazy people out of our society, so they aren’t in plain view but rather in mental facilities. The actual solution gets to the root, of the heart. Taking out the weed by the root means I get involved, get on my knees, get my hands around it, making sure it’s all out so that it won’t grow back. The root/heart is a spiritual problem! Politics will not solve this problem, just make it worse.
How do WE fix the heart condition? WE don’t, God does. God does as WE get involved with Him to reach out to people in the way He wants us to. What does God say the solution is? Should we be listening to these politicians with all their ridiculous ideas and remedies, or listening to the God who created us for a good purpose on the earth?
The “heart” changes by the renewing of our minds by faith in the truth of what God says in His Word. (Romans 12:1-2) People need the LORD! We don’t need more government, more new ideas, more laws! We all need to surrender ourselves over to God’s love and will. As our mind changes (heals) then our behavior follows.
We have always had murder, but we did not have this much hate. Until we see what the real solution is to all this hostility and chaos, and teach/speak the truth about it, and then are willing to obey the will of God, we will not solve any inhumanities in society and throughout the world. We can take guns away from law abiding citizens but that won’t stop mass killings. We can provide more mental health organizations and doctors, but that won’t heal the heart. But until we are humble enough and willing to get to the root, we will have this continuing.
You must be born-again, by faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, reborn of His Spirit.