makes you wonder....regarding the terrorist attacks on 9-11-01

Did you see where Billy Graham's daughter was being interviewed on

the

Early Show a few days ago about the September 11th terrorist attack and

Jane

Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?"





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 our

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?"





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."





Then there was the student who wrote "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 yet?? Funny

how

when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to

many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or

what

they will think of you for sending it to them. Funny how I can be more

worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.

Are

you thinking yet???

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