This morning I woke up late as I was up most of the night reading posts about yet another shooting in my Hometown of Beaver Falls, PA. Last night's shootings involved two young men being shot.
This is played out night after night, not only in my Hometown, but also in your Hometowns. As I laid there reading the prayers, the outrage of friends and family, the frustration of a community and the fear associated with these shootings, the drugs and all of the crime...the verse in scriptures that is in my heart to share with readers of this post today is, Jesus Wept.
It is heartbreaking to understand the depth of sin that is in this world and how steeped in sin some of our children and some of us truly are.
Our Prisons ARE FILLED with boys who instead of learning to swing a bat, have been taught and have learned to "sling drugs"; instead of pulling up on a jump shots in a high school basketball game, they have opted to pull a trigger of a gun. Our girls, instead of playing with Barbie Dolls are raising their very own children at a very early age.
The streets are claiming our babies before they can learn life skills like playing a sport which equals team building, trust and teamwork. Playing with Dolls equals care, nurturing and responsibility.
Although the smallest of all scriptures, "Jesus Wept" is so profound. If we truly meditated on this verse and asked "why", we would begin to see the multitude of reasons for our Savior's tears.
Yes, He wept for the death of His friend Lazarus, but when you draw back and look at the much bigger picture, you will see that Jesus Wept for the death of all men. It wasn't supposed to be like this. Because of sin, we now face death. Jesus wept because every man born of a woman will experience death. Jesus wept because sin has separated from Him what He has created.
Jesus wept because of the loss of our children, family values, loss of fellowship with one another, the reliance on drugs, guns and illicit activities that permeates our society and the corresponding decline of righteousness, holiness and God fearing/life sustaining values. Jesus wept because we have compromised with the enemy instead of praying against the activities of the enemy (as long as it's not in my house).
Jesus wept because we have fallen so far away from what He created us to be.
It's Praying time and today, I'm praying for Beaver Falls and I'm joining you in praying for your Hometowns...don't just talk about it; BE ABOUT IT! Amen.
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