Time to Grow Up

It’s time people stop pointing fingers and accusing God of abandoning us when things go horribly wrong. Wake up people, it’s not His fault that innocent lives were lost 3 days ago. God didn’t do that, a person did. A person has free will because God gave him free will - and it is because of the misuse of that freedom why 27 people are dead in one morning.

This is not God turning a blind eye or punishing us. This is the consequence of our own actions. We worry about offending other people so we remove religious paraphernalia and we refuse to have our children be guided morally, theologically, because “hey, I don’t think it’s nice to shove my beliefs down other peoples’ throats”. And yeah, it’s not. But teaching children how to be morally upright human beings should hardly be a problem? I think the biggest problem is that it’s not stressed enough. That’s why teachers like Victoria Soto have to stand in front of a shooter and die protecting her students. 

God didn’t abandon us - we abandoned Him. We were more concerned about what other people thought of us than how God sees us. We have no right to question God. He doesn’t make mistakes, letting that Lanza boy shoot all those people wasn’t God’s mistake. 

Our decisions, our actions, our responsibilities. He is sovereign, but he is not a puppeteer that controls our every action. He is our creator not a destroyer. It is ignorant to think that the God who sent His son to die for a world full of murderers, liars, adulterers, thieves, bullies, pedophiles, greedy, proud, envious, treacherous people and be the same God who willed for these people to be killed. 

People kill people.

It’s time we take full responsibility for our sins and stop blaming God for everything. A God as loving, merciful, and just as He is, is not a God who will personally move someone to murder children and adults in cold blood. So before we accuse God of being unfair and questioning His power, maybe we should first spend the time to get to know Him.