Where’s God?
I recently read a chain email that was pretty insightful. However, being the responsible person I am, I couldn’t post it here w/o validating the contents. It turns out that the message is fabricated out of multiple true stories. The part that hit me is an actual excerpt from and an interview with Anne Graham Lotz that you can find here
Jane Clayson: I’ve heard people say, those who are religious, those who are not, if God is good, how could God let [9/11] happen? To that, you say?
Anne Graham Lotz: I say God is also angry when he sees something like this. I would say also for several years now Americans in a sense have shaken their fist at God and said, God, we want you out of our schools, our government, our business, we want you out of our marketplace. And God, who is a gentleman, has just quietly backed out of our national and political life, our public life. Removing his hand of blessing and protection. We need to turn to God first of all and say, God, we’re sorry we have treated you this way and we invite you now to come into our national life. We put our trust in you. We have our trust in God on our coins, we need to practice it.
The rest of the email went on about how about the irony of removing God and solving the issues ourself but the exact thing we tried to avoid occurred. Having done our “Why” skit (read previous entry), her answer doesn’t complete satisfies the question but it does bring up a good point that my roommate made. Job 2:10 … Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble? … We want all the good and not the bad. In the same way that Anne brings up and is elaborated further in the email: Our country increasingly doesn’t want God around but when bad things happen, we ask where he is. “You told him to get out, now he’s gone and bad things happen. Do you want him back?” It’s like the Israelites. They kick God out by worshiping other gods. God allows bad things happen so they realize what they have done. Will we realize what we have done and turn our hearts back to God?
Rest of the email: (Accuracy has not been confirmed)
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 though shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal,
and love your neighbor 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).
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.