Did you see where Billy Graham's daughter was being interviewed on the Early Show a few days ago about the September 11th terrorist attack and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?"
Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.
She said "I believe that 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 that He is, I believe that He has calmly backed
out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we
demand that He leave us alone?"
Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, (her body was found recently) complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school... the Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour 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) And we said, an expert
should know what he's talking about so we said OK.
Then, someone said teachers
and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And 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 big difference between disciplining and
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. And 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.
And
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 stepped further still by making
them available on the internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to their free
speech.
And then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and
movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. And 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, and 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." Then there was the
student who wrote "Dear God, Why didn't you save the little girl killed in her
classroom? " Sincerely, Concerned Student... AND THE REPLY "Dear Concerned
Student, I am not allowed in schools".
Sincerely, God.
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 everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to
believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says. Funny how someone can say
"I believe in God" but still follow Satan who, by the way, also
"believes" in God.
Funny how we are quick to judge but not to be judged. Funny how you
can
send a thousand '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 the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through
cyberspace, but the public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and
workplace.
Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an
invisible Christian the rest of the week.
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