The Truth

Finally, The Truth on National TV, Billy Graham's daughter was
being interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her
"How could God let something like this happen?"

And 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 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?"

I know there's been a lot of emails going around in regards to
9/11/01, but this really makes you think. If you don't have time,
at least skim through it, but the bottom line is something to
think about....

In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings,
etc.

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 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) 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."

"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.

Are you laughing?