To Solve Human Violence

It is truly sad to watch citizens of our nation emotionally and legalisticly tearing at each other and vying for political advantage, when we all should be turning to God, repenting, and begging His forgiveness for our lustful, hateful, and selfish urges and tendencies. 

We wail and posture angrily about the children and teachers killed by shooters in Connecticut Texas, and elsewhere, yet we collectively rant and rave about wanting to keep butchering millions of unborn children year after year. God hates our killing of our unborn children. 

We blame parents, police, each other, and inanimate objects (like firearms) instead of blaming our own personal sin natures for all the hate, selfishness, crime, and violence throughout our nation. As the Bible, God's Word, clearly shows, every one of us contributes to the problems caused by our sin, to whatever degree we refuse to stand up to do the work that God appoints for us to do. Our refusal to side with God's absolute moral standards (that He has set for our own good) enables sin to run its unholy course, corrupting us and those around us, generation after generation, spiraling our culture toward collective destruction.

When we do not allow God's Spirit, Word, and the ways of God to fill, direct, and enrich our lives with His purpose, then we have rejected Him and have no one but ourselves to blame for the social and moral disasters that come upon us which we alone have allowed and caused.

We keep telling government to do our jobs. Instead of keeping our families and communities doing right and safe, ourselves, we lazily sit by as government does our work poorly and inefficiently. Then we complain that we don't like how the politicians do things. We are utterly drowning in our sinful hypocrisy against our society and against our offspring. 

Since the days of New York's Sullivan Laws and FDR's gun bans and beginnings of the ATF, one can study through more than 100 years of governmental attempts to try to control human sin and violence by legislative means. Edicts and legalisms do NOT work. God says that law only exposes sin and that godly authority exists to punish sin swiftly. Our legal system, like our citizenry, has drifted far away from God and His ways. The farther we remove ourselves from God's path the worse our social plight shall continue to become. From the beginning of human history, God has always promised to every society that we are all accountable to Him. His Word cannot be broken. 

Let us stop blaming everything else in life for our failures and accept responsibility for our personal and collective sins. Let us not just bewail catastrophes, but, let us also speak about the people who put their lives on the line daily and stop evil, whether they are private citizens or in public service. Let us stop going along with the lies of politicians who seek to foster their careers more than solving social ills. We shall never be free of social turmoil and violence unless we humble ourselves before God in repentance and faith in the only Savior whom God has appointed for us, Jesus Christ. Only His blood can wash away our sin. Only His Word and Spirit can enliven, clarify, and repurpose our lives to godly living. 

As God in the flesh has emphatically said, "Ye must be born again." (John 3:16) "The words that I have spoken unto you shall judge you. " (John 12:48)