They need to know we care
It
is time to say enough, and it is time to tell anyone in authority from our
President down to quit attacking our police officers, that is what courts and
investigations are for. If we look at the current President his batting
average is not all that good on blaming before knowing all the facts.
Yes, it is time to pray and prayer has more power than anything else. But
it is also time to stand for life, all life, and one must look at the hypocrisy
on the black lives matter, and the ones pulling the string behind the scene.
Chicagoans
didn't march en masse to protest the 69 shootings in their city over
Memorial Day weekend and those were black on black. Federal authorities didn't rush in to
investigate. Don't those lives matter
too? Where were these Black Lives Matter
protesters after the slaying of Chicago’s little Tyshawn Lee, the
9-year-old lured into an alley and shot to death by a black man seeking
gang-related vengeance against his father?
These are good questions, ask by news sites on the Internet, but not
reported by most of the major press.
According
to one of these Internet sources, the FBI data shows 4,906 black people
murdered other blacks in 2010 and 2011. I hope these numbers are wrong, but if it is
only 1/3 of this number, it is still a terrible thing. I wish I knew how to fix the problem, much of
the problem is the breakdown of the family, many of these young men do not have
a dad, many never had a dad, never had an authority figure in a male other than
the gang.
Most
of us were taught to obey authority, all authority, and it would solve many of our
problems at this time, whether you are black or white. It is a wise person who shows respect for
those in authority, and each of us has due process in our courts. And I’m not naïve, I do watch the news and I
understand that money and power get some from justice, but each of us will
someday stand before a judge that has all the facts and for those whose power
and wealth got them off, judgment is coming.
Folks,
we are in a mess, and it looks like someone is doing their best to make us fear
each other, and this I know fear is not the answer, in fact the only answer is
to quit all this talk about people you do not know and humble yourself before
our LORD and pray that we return to being a nation under God, that puts Him
first, for He told us to love our neighbors, and to love our enemies, we have a
long way to go.
I
just heard Dr. Tony Evans say it is the Church that has dropped the ball
on race relationship, we who are in Christ have all been shown grace it is the
blood of Christ and the Cross that is our identity. We all wear the same uniform, with different
gifts but one assignment to carry the banner of Jesus Christ, when we let race
cause division you have taken off the uniform.
It is time for those who go by the title of Christian to check their
uniform.
From
the Back Porch,
Bob
Rice
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