Curing the Symptom Not the Disease!

Today I read about a shooting that occurred in Las Vegas at a funeral being held for a woman who was stabbed to death. A gunman showed up then opened fire on the crowd. Fortunately, seven people were only wounded and all are expected to live. As I read the article online, I noticed a comment that someone posted about the shooting. The person making the comment stated that this nation is a 3rd world cesspool and it was no wonder why they removed prayer from the schools. What a sad misdirected thought! Prayer was not removed from school because we were a cesspool but we became a cesspool when they removed prayer from the schools. The "cesspool" symptom is caused by the disease and we are trying to cure the symptom but do nothing with the disease itself.

Before the schools were forced to remove prayer from their classrooms, they addressed tough issues like gum chewing in class, running in the halls, kids playing hookie, and class clowns making fun of the teachers and faculty. Today teachers only wish that they could address those issues instead of the ones they now face. Rape, murder and drugs are only some of the major issues facing schools. They now have metal detectors in schools and security guards walking the hallways. Even as a junior high school student I recall an attack on a teacher by a student while we we were in class. My question is why the change? Altough most questions do not have simple answers, I believe this one does. When what our nation was founded on (biblical principles and a belief in God)is removed as our foundation, we begin to collapse as a nation from the inside. Our nation's morals are under attack not from without but within. When we remove God from our foundation and replace Him with all sorts of vile and impure things, we get what we have. There are those out there who would remove any vestiage of Christianity from our history if they could and then silience us today. We need more than ever to be the Salt and Light to this nation and the world if we are to fulfill God's command to share His love with the world. Time is short and we need to share the gospel with everyone we know and meet.

I have always thought it was strange how we cannot allow the Bible to be taught in schools but they can teach students about the Koran. Bibles are not allowed in schools but they are welcomed into prisons. What if we reintroduced God's word back into the public schools? Did you think the prison population might go down? I am all for giving it a try! We can only go up from here!