America was once again rocked by the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
As usual, the same arguments popped back up about how to fix it. Liberals shouted for gun control. Conservatives shouted for armed guards in the schools. Folks of different persuasions called for metal detectors, national databases to track mental health, cameras in schools, hiring former veterans to guard schools, etc.
Some of those solutions may work. Most won't. I'm not here to say which ones I support or don't support. All I know is that murder has been part of humanity since the first generation, and nothing has changed. Some people use guns. Other people use knives. Still others use vehicles to mow down pedestrians- see Europe in 2017. Some use box cutters. Some use fertilizer and diesel fuel. The very first murder in the Bible was done by Cain, and he used a rock.
Violence is a spiritual problem. Spiritual problems require spiritual solutions. There are no legal solutions to spiritual problems. You can't pass laws to fix spiritual sickness. However, we will still try.
And those legal solutions to the spiritual problem of immorality are very, VERY expensive.
Because the Florida shooter (I will not name his name- his name never needs to be mentioned again) disobeyed the spiritual command "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder" we now have to do something about it. We now have to put metal detectors in schools. That'll be a few million bucks. We now have to hire armed security. That'll be a few more million bucks. We now have to put in cameras and secure doors and develop lockdown procedures bringing in security experts to the tune of several more million bucks.
The cost of immorality to a society is staggering. And yet we are willing to pay that price to keep up with the facade that there is no objective right and wrong.
We would rather pay millions upon millions of dollars to "fix" these problems rather than admit that we, as a nation, have a morality problem. Leaders would rather spend these millions and millions of dollars than call this nation to repentance before God, emphasize objective right and wrong, and address this nation's immorality problem.
There used to be signs in every school that had a list of ten commands, the sixth of which was "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder." Students used to see those every day. Those used to shape the minds of kids. Well, thanks to our parents' generation, they decided that those were unnecessary in classrooms and they were removed by those who were "enlightened." Funny- there weren't many school shootings back then.
Now, with the Ten Commandments gone, with the objective moral law of "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder" gone from our schools and our lives, now we need metal detectors, armed guards, video cameras- basically a maximum security prison- for our kids to be "safe" at school. We are truly nuts.
Look at how expensive immorality is to our communities.
Aside from the expense of turning our schools into fortresses that Seal Team Six couldn't break into, look at the cost of the drug epidemic here in America. Look at the cost of law enforcement, special task forces, gang units, incarceration, drug treatment programs, Narcan, needle exchange programs. What could that money be spent on instead? Tons of things. However, because of immorality, we spend millions if not billions of dollars on this issue with no real end in sight.
Why are we in America so willing to pay these billions of dollars instead of doing the far less costly thing of repentance, turning to God, taking our families seriously, teaching values in the home, supporting our churches, and finding spiritual solutions to these spiritual problems?
Plain and simple- it's easier to throw money at something and feel satisfied about it than it is to repent and change. Many times, God accused the nation of Israel of being "stiff-necked." which means unable to repent. Proud. Arrogant. Convinced they were right.
Well, we in America are no different. We are stiff-necked. And our stiff-necked-ness is costing us billions of dollars every year trying to find solutions to problems that don't require us to change. How are they working out for us?
I would say we aren't getting a very good return on our investments.
I'm tired of hearing the blather from each side about what to do and how to do it. All I hear are legal solutions to spiritual problems. There ARE no legal, financial, military, or human solutions to spiritual problems. The spiritual problem of immorality is taking its toll on us as Americans. As America moves further and further away from Biblical morality, our "solutions" to our problems will grow more and more expensive.
Our immorality will bankrupt this nation.
We simply cannot continue to afford the cost of immorality. We can't put metal detectors in every shop, store, building, school, church, etc. We simply cannot hire enough armed guards to cover every place a shooter might go- soccer fields, high school baseball games, malls, parties, meetings, coffee shops, etc. We simply cannot afford the cost of immorality.
Unless America repents, turns back to God, begins taking objective right and wrong as dictated by God seriously, and changes her HEART, we will see very little effects from our billions and billions of dollars spent. How expensive has the war on drugs been? Yet we have more drugs now than ever. How expensive has school security been? Yet we still have school shootings.
Those of you who do not believe in God and do not see the value in doing things God's way, at least see the sheer cost of NOT doing things God's way in a society. We can't afford it. Even if you don't believe in God, I ask you to come around to seeing the wisdom of adopting His ways. Our human solutions aren't working, and they are too expensive. We must work to change the heart, to teach the value of human life, that all are created in the image of God and therefore are of infinite value.
That and that alone will change America and will stop the violence. Anything else is simply a waste of time and money.
As usual, the same arguments popped back up about how to fix it. Liberals shouted for gun control. Conservatives shouted for armed guards in the schools. Folks of different persuasions called for metal detectors, national databases to track mental health, cameras in schools, hiring former veterans to guard schools, etc.
Some of those solutions may work. Most won't. I'm not here to say which ones I support or don't support. All I know is that murder has been part of humanity since the first generation, and nothing has changed. Some people use guns. Other people use knives. Still others use vehicles to mow down pedestrians- see Europe in 2017. Some use box cutters. Some use fertilizer and diesel fuel. The very first murder in the Bible was done by Cain, and he used a rock.
Violence is a spiritual problem. Spiritual problems require spiritual solutions. There are no legal solutions to spiritual problems. You can't pass laws to fix spiritual sickness. However, we will still try.
And those legal solutions to the spiritual problem of immorality are very, VERY expensive.
Because the Florida shooter (I will not name his name- his name never needs to be mentioned again) disobeyed the spiritual command "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder" we now have to do something about it. We now have to put metal detectors in schools. That'll be a few million bucks. We now have to hire armed security. That'll be a few more million bucks. We now have to put in cameras and secure doors and develop lockdown procedures bringing in security experts to the tune of several more million bucks.
The cost of immorality to a society is staggering. And yet we are willing to pay that price to keep up with the facade that there is no objective right and wrong.
We would rather pay millions upon millions of dollars to "fix" these problems rather than admit that we, as a nation, have a morality problem. Leaders would rather spend these millions and millions of dollars than call this nation to repentance before God, emphasize objective right and wrong, and address this nation's immorality problem.
There used to be signs in every school that had a list of ten commands, the sixth of which was "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder." Students used to see those every day. Those used to shape the minds of kids. Well, thanks to our parents' generation, they decided that those were unnecessary in classrooms and they were removed by those who were "enlightened." Funny- there weren't many school shootings back then.
Now, with the Ten Commandments gone, with the objective moral law of "Thou Shalt Not Commit Murder" gone from our schools and our lives, now we need metal detectors, armed guards, video cameras- basically a maximum security prison- for our kids to be "safe" at school. We are truly nuts.
Look at how expensive immorality is to our communities.
Aside from the expense of turning our schools into fortresses that Seal Team Six couldn't break into, look at the cost of the drug epidemic here in America. Look at the cost of law enforcement, special task forces, gang units, incarceration, drug treatment programs, Narcan, needle exchange programs. What could that money be spent on instead? Tons of things. However, because of immorality, we spend millions if not billions of dollars on this issue with no real end in sight.
Why are we in America so willing to pay these billions of dollars instead of doing the far less costly thing of repentance, turning to God, taking our families seriously, teaching values in the home, supporting our churches, and finding spiritual solutions to these spiritual problems?
Plain and simple- it's easier to throw money at something and feel satisfied about it than it is to repent and change. Many times, God accused the nation of Israel of being "stiff-necked." which means unable to repent. Proud. Arrogant. Convinced they were right.
Well, we in America are no different. We are stiff-necked. And our stiff-necked-ness is costing us billions of dollars every year trying to find solutions to problems that don't require us to change. How are they working out for us?
I would say we aren't getting a very good return on our investments.
I'm tired of hearing the blather from each side about what to do and how to do it. All I hear are legal solutions to spiritual problems. There ARE no legal, financial, military, or human solutions to spiritual problems. The spiritual problem of immorality is taking its toll on us as Americans. As America moves further and further away from Biblical morality, our "solutions" to our problems will grow more and more expensive.
Our immorality will bankrupt this nation.
We simply cannot continue to afford the cost of immorality. We can't put metal detectors in every shop, store, building, school, church, etc. We simply cannot hire enough armed guards to cover every place a shooter might go- soccer fields, high school baseball games, malls, parties, meetings, coffee shops, etc. We simply cannot afford the cost of immorality.
Unless America repents, turns back to God, begins taking objective right and wrong as dictated by God seriously, and changes her HEART, we will see very little effects from our billions and billions of dollars spent. How expensive has the war on drugs been? Yet we have more drugs now than ever. How expensive has school security been? Yet we still have school shootings.
Those of you who do not believe in God and do not see the value in doing things God's way, at least see the sheer cost of NOT doing things God's way in a society. We can't afford it. Even if you don't believe in God, I ask you to come around to seeing the wisdom of adopting His ways. Our human solutions aren't working, and they are too expensive. We must work to change the heart, to teach the value of human life, that all are created in the image of God and therefore are of infinite value.
That and that alone will change America and will stop the violence. Anything else is simply a waste of time and money.
