Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
You can watch the video by clicking the picture, but I don’t advise it. It made me sick physically. It also just makes my heart hurt.
The immediate question we have to ask is, why? Why would girls do this to another girl? How can they have that low of a value for another human’s life?
The “secular” sociologist, psychologist, philosophers, and scientist have given their opinions on this issue in
The question these children and others ask is, “Why?” “Why should I value life? Why should I be kind to others?” What they are really asking is, “Why does another person’s life have value to me?” The fact of the matter is that our children are smart. The slippery slope of secularism and naturalism ends up with an unyielding appetite for sex, violence, and power. Our decision to consent to the teaching that God is dead or at best irrelevant has produced a society where natural selection and the personal pursuits of pleasure have become the foundation of our society’s existence.
The result of this decision for a Godless society is a conscience free population. There is no love and/or fear of God. There is only a love for self and a fear of getting caught. That fear of getting caught is declining because our country does not have the resources or resolve to police itself. Our kids know it. They see it on TV. Our system of justice can be bought and beaten in this country. Our children are being taught to have no fear and no restraint.
So what do the elites of our country say? The “secular” sociologist, psychologist, philosophers, and scientist all have to shrug their shoulders. They want to teach children values, but to do that they have to claim absolute truth. To do that a person inevitably must come to the conclusion of a value giver – God. It seems that those who influence our society and lead it cannot and will not come to that conclusion. And so until they do and until we demand it as believers in the way we vote and spend our time and money, we will have to tolerate this kind of violence and social decay. After all, if there is no God, the question our kids will continue to ask is, “Who says I should love and care for other people more than myself?” Without God, we have no good answer.
As believers, we must train our children to love God and fear (respect) Him for who He is. We do this by what we do, what we say, and by our efforts to express how we feel toward God and our children with the way we spend our time, money, and abilities.
John Lennon asked us to “imagine” a world where there is no faith (religion) or hope of heaven. We don’t have to imagine it anymore. We see the results on the news. Don’t be too harsh on John. He genuinely believed that people are good hearted. He did have children. It is surprising that he never noticed that you don’t have to teach a child to lie, be selfish, or violent. They do that naturally. You must train a child to love and be loved. You have to train a child to respect others and authority. You have to train children to honor themselves and their parents. The training manual is truth and the author is Jesus.
Someone will say, “Why Jesus? Why not Islam, Hinduism, or some other religious system? That’s the problem with you Christians you think Jesus is the only way.” Well, what other faith system teaches to love because you have been loved by your creator? What other system teaches to sacrifice self and serve others with love and joy? What other faith system can reasonably show that God exists, came to us, provided a means to transform us, defeated our evil nature and enemy death, and demonstrated it with His death, burial, and resurrection from the dead? Jesus has done all this and more. Jesus teaches us that God is love, that God is just, that God is knowable, that God is worth living and dying for, that God is worthy of worship, and so much more.
What do you believe? Are you sharing it? Those who don’t believe in Jesus are sharing their faith. Until the people who bear the name Christ share their belief with a resolve to help our world with the light and love of God, there is no hope. And in the end, we who know better because we know Jesus are ultimately at fault, if we are not doing all we can to let people know the way, the truth and the life.
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Come, Lord Jesus. Come.
Jason, great post.
One minor factual correction: John Lennon did have children, at least two: Julian and Sean.
I like your comment “Those who don’t believe in Jesus are sharing their faith.” That couldn’t be truer. I’ve known several atheists and agnostics who cannot resist the urge to tell others of their intellectual reasons for denying God’s existence. Often was the case that I never had to prompt the conversation in that direction. They (the atheists and agnostics) brought it up. More often than not their message was dangerously influential since their jobs kept them around dozens of people each day.
A strategy I suggest in dealing with atheists/agnostics, as a former agnostic, is to pray that the Holy Spirit presses the need for God onto their heart.
In addition to this I’d like to challenge everyone to what’s next. Whenever I come across an atheist or an agnostic I now have great hope. Although they (the atheist and agnostic) serve the Enemy’s agenda every one of them I’ve met have a similar “passion”. Each of them I’ve met were never “lukewarm” about their belief/unbelief system. As I’ve mentioned they couldn’t help but let you know about it. Imagine if a person like this came to Christ and turned their life over to them. I’m certain his/her fire would be set for spreading the Gospel.
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