In light of the many perversions and jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this
is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke, it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and
Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding the attacks on
Sept. 11).
Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.
She said "I believe 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 He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God
to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school
shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she
was murdered, her body
found recently) complained she
didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.
Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school the Bible says
thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as ourself.
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). We said an expert should know
what he's talking about. And we said OK.
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."
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 you can send
'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
lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion
of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not
sure what they believe, or what they WILL think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more
worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass
it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But,
if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world
is in!