Wait just a second and think this through...

So first off let me get one thing very clear - I am deeply saddened at the loss of any human life at the hands of another whether it is intentional or accidental - My deepest prayers go out to the families who have been rocked by this latest shooting, the thought that 20 children will never have the opportunity to grow up and live their dreams is awful. But wait just a second and think this through - we are outraged at 20 children being murdered, calling for gun bans and legislation to "fix" our problem, to fix our hurt. I ask where is the outrage for the 3500 children who were murdered today in an abortion clinic? They didn't even have an opportunity to run, their lives were taken just the same as those 20 precious lives in Newtown,  the only difference it was a Doctor performing a procedure, not a man with a gun... depending on the source approx 55,762,500 children have been aborted since 1973 in the United States, and 1,278,530,310 world wide since 1980 (more than the total casualty count for WW-I and WW-II combined in case you are wondering)... where is the outrage for these lives that have been taken? Who is mourning their loss? I am not saying that we shouldn't mourn a tragedy but let's remember there is a bigger issue here. 

More Government regulations will not fix the problem, better gun control will never solve the problem, I know what will fix the problem though, more precisely I know who can fix the problem, not some elected official, not even a religious leader or your favorite pastor. The only place we can look for the solution is to the creator, to God himself. His people need to cry out together to him and ask his forgiveness for forsaking him. We have fallen into the same cycle that the children of Israel were following in the book of Judges... With the silence of a generation, the people forgot who God was, and turned to worship in their own ways forsaking God. God being gracious, allowed them the choice to leave, giving them what they wanted, allowing them to fall prey to their pride, and their greed, allowing them to fall captive to their sin.  However he didn't forsake them, when they were at their worst he was still their, he still loved them, and once they cried out to Him he heard their cries and sent someone to lead them out of the wilderness, back into relationship with God. 

God will continue his promise laid out in the scripture that "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14


Will you humble yourself with me and pray, seeking the face of God, seeking his healing on our lands?