Another Tragedy...

If I hear “it’s because we took God out of school this is happening” I think I will scream. 

I read on Fox news this morning where the gunman forced his way into the school. I know in AL and NC they have armed resource officers. Do schools up north not have armed officers in their schools? If they do where was this officer?  If not I would say parents need to ban together arm themselves and form a barricade around their children's school and dare crazy gunman to enter the school with the intent to do harm.  

Here is my opinion...as you know I am a mother of 3 boys so take as you will...

Deuteronomy 6:5-9 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise. You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

So prayer is not allowed in school. What about our homes? When was the last time we had family prayer time, and no I do not mean praying over food as family prayer time. I mean when was the last time we sat down with our children and prayed and read the Bible as a family? If God is not in the schools that means HE MUST be in our homes. His word needs to be written on our doorpost and our gates. We must teach our children values and morals based on our beliefs because if we don’t no one will. It is our responsibility as parents not some teacher in the public school or some teacher on Sunday morning. These are our children birthed forth from our lions. They are our flesh and blood. IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY to teach them the value of life.

Proverbs 13:24 He who spares his rod hates his son, but he who loves him disciplines him promptly.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4 And you fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

I am hearing this happen because we kicked God out of school. No I do not believe that is the reason we have all these shootings. I believe it is because we as parents have failed at our jobs. We have failed to teach the value of life. We have failed to stand up to society and say no not everyone wins, no we do not have to accept people because they believe different than us. Yes we need to respect their rights but that does not mean we have to accept their values as ours.  We have failed our children because we as parents have not taught them right from wrong. We have not set boundaries and we have not enforced them. We have raised a bunch of princesses and I'm gonna pitch a fit if I don't get what I want brats. When my children were younger they were in the public school system and they were taught the number for child services to call if they felt they were being abused. I went to correct one of the boys when they were younger and he looked at me and said I will call the number. After his punishment, I told him to go ahead and call the number. I would have his bag packed when they got there and he could go live with strangers and never see any of us again. I explained to him that we had boundaries in our family and one of those boundaries was you could not hit your brother with a baseball bat just because he would not share his toy with you. Boundaries we all need them. Oh and I was never threatened again by one of my children.

Titus 2: 2-8 That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things; That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed . Young men likewise exhort to be sober minded.  In all things shewing thyself a pattern of good works: in doctrine shewing uncorruptness, gravity, sincerity, Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed , having no evil thing to say of you.

We cannot teach and lead by “do as I say not as I do” children are not programed that way nor are we. We are told to be imitators of Christ.  We must live our life as an example to our children we must sober, of sound faith, and teachers of good things. It is our responsibility to train our children in the ways of the Lord. We were not blessed with these precious little ones just to hand them over to someone to train. You don’t believe me just look around, look at the training they are receiving. School is for training and education for a skill or leadership. In all the definitions I read no where do I read it was for training and education in moral issues, character, or values, that my friends is our responsibility as parents. 

Ephesians 5:22-31 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.  Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.  For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body. “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” 

So I am about to make some people angry but like I said this is my opinion and blog. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. We still have freedom of speech here and I am invoking my right of freedom of speech.

I believe with all my heart that the reason society as a whole is going to hell in a hand basket is we have disregarded the family. People enter into marriage now days with the attitude “well if it doesn’t work out we can get a divorce” and things are more important than people. I understand there are times that divorce is necessary but not all divorces are that way.

We see both husbands and wives working outside the home because they feel they need two new cars, the latest cellphone, a big house in a gated community and all the bling and shiny things to dress that house up. We feel that our children must be involved in every sport and every extra-curricular activity that comes along.  But how many times do we allow our children to quit in the middle because they see more bench time than other children or they have to stand on the back row during a performance. How many of us work 40+ hours a week just so we can put our children in the programs, pay 2 car notes, and a house note? Do we really need all of this? Would it hurt us to have to live in a house that has 1000sq feet less than we currently have and don’t have gates entering the community? Do we have to have 2 new cars? Do we have to have the newest cellphones and a 2 year contract that runs $200 a month? Do we need all those tv channels? Do our kids need their own computer IN THEIR ROOM? Think about your last big purchase how is effecting your children? Is it training them up with morals and instilling good values?

Just what are our priorities? What example are we setting? What are we really teaching our children?

Psalm 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord.

I believe our heritage is not our children but our grandchildren. Let’s take a good long hard look at our children; do we want them training up our grandchildren? Scary isn’t it…these children that we now hold dear are our future. I for one I think we need to do a better job of taking care of our heritage.