It's our fault, not His

This is a necessary blog, because confusion continues to run rampant.  There is a serious problem when we try to blame God for the horrible things that happen in this world.  Too many times Christians decide that hurricanes, earthquakes, and insane shootings are God’s judgment on people.  Oddly, they then have trouble answering why God would do that to someone.  Make no mistake, the world is under horrible judgment, and will continue to be so until the day that God reconciles the world to Himself.  We make too many assumptions about how much we know about God.

We know He loves us. He loves us so much that He sent His Son to die on the cross for our sins.  It was a very horrific, beyond understandable solution to the sin problem.  We know His death on the cross provided a method for us to be made right with Him, but that our sufferings will increase.  We live in an evil world, that is filled with pain and suffering.  Our answer is the peace that only Christ can give.  Some will beg and plead for Him to stay out of their lives, and He does, then we get upset because He doesn’t give the protection we so desperately desire.

The recent shootings were horrible by American standards.  I hate to bring this up, because it hurts us so much, but we are a country who turns our heads to worse atrocities around the world to young kids not even able to go to school.  Maybe we should think a little about that.

Is God to blame?  No.  It is man’s fault, not His.  This isn’t His world, not what He designed, not what He wants.  We don’t like His world, we wanted, and continue to want, this instead.  Is it the fault of all the Godless people in our nation?  Maybe, but how do we expect them to act?  They act the way they are born to act.  We can’t hate a cat because it cleans itself, or a bird because it flies.  Sin is the natural man we are born as.  It takes a radical change to become something else, that is where Christ comes in.

Hurt as it may, the majority of any moral responsibility falls squarely on the Christians.  It is the Christians who pray that God will bring this nation to its knees, this may be the last resort.  Natural disasters, financial crisis, and ruthless violence may just be the last resort.  Beyond that, it is Christians who have failed to step-up over the last few decades.  It is Christians who have turned away from God, letting Him be taken out of our society.  We vote for leaders who are against our morals, we show our children how to NOT follow God, and worry more about offending people than loving them.  I do not have to wait until I hear all the details on the recent CT shooting, I can tell you that evil had hurt him tremendously, and that ambassadors of Christ had not been able to share the healing that only Christ provides.  If we want this to end, if we want this country (my state!) and this world to change it will take radical change in the life of those who claim to be Christians.  We should examine ourselves if we want real change.

My prayers are with those who were impacted by this tragedy in CT.  We feel sorrow for the adults in the school, but the concept of all those young kids having their lives ended and horrifically impacted hurts badly.  I pity anyone who has not shed tears for these children and their families.  Gun control, hatred, evil, new security measures, and more education will not fix this.  Only real change in the hearts and actions of first Christians will have any impact.  Showing our love to all we can, especially those who are hurting, is a good start.  Are you ready to do your part?