God Can Fix This

God can fix this.

As I write this, our country is once again reeling from a mass shooting. Sadly, it’s becoming more and more common place and people are frightened. These are without a doubt, frightening times we live in.

The latest massacre occurred in San Bernardino, California. One of the first reports that I saw was that a young woman had texted her father to, “pray for us.”

I thought about that young woman’s text, all through that evening. I thought about the times I have had a friend text me and ask me for prayer and how powerful prayer is. I thought about how desperate and afraid people sometimes are when they finally ask someone to pray for them.

I also thought about how nonchalant people have become about prayer on social media. Some people have become awfully comfortable asking all of their five hundred plus, Facebook Friends, to pray that the cake they are baking doesn’t fall. I also see a lot of my best friend’s, brother’s friend, Sally’s sister, needs prayer type things. I often wonder, is Sally praying? Is her brother praying?

Prayer is serious business. It’s our direct connection to God. I have the utmost respect for the power of prayer.

Imagine my surprise, when I read the headline of the “New York Daily News,” that boldly proclaimed, “God Isn’t Fixing This.” It went on to belittle politicians who had offered prayers for the victims and their families.

Apparently, many people who were trapped inside that building in San Bernardino felt differently. They were praying. One young woman called her sister to tell her she loved her after she was shot in the back. She was crying and praying for her life. She survived.  Furthermore, many of the ones who were rescued, formed a prayer circle and prayed together. There’s a picture of them captured on Twitter.

I’ve always heard there are no atheists in foxholes. Looks like that’s true.

Who knows what kind of intervention resulted from the desperate prayers of those people who were trapped and injured along with the prayers from their families and other Americans who watched the horror unfold?

As far as God not fixing the mess, that America finds itself in regarding gun violence, He’s the only one who can. As a nation, we have largely turned our backs on God. Of the 70% who claim to be Christians, studies show that only 20% attend a weekly worship service. If we aren’t worshiping God, who or what are we worshiping?

When we give God very little thought, when we don’t worship, or pray, or read the Bible or try to be like Christ, how can we be surprised that our country has turned violent?

God is still very much alive and in play. He can certainly intervene, but have we asked God to fix our problems? Our God is not a dictatorial bully. We have to ask. As a nation, are we willing to fix our minds on Him and His plan and not our own?

I don’t think for a minute that He sits up in Heaven with a smite button to punish us for our wrongdoings, but when we insist on living outside His will, the consequences are on us.

I respectfully disagree with the, “Daily News;” prayer is the most powerful weapon we have, but we have to use it wisely and frequently and we really need to use it as a nation.

He’s not done with us. Are we done with Him?

Have an awesome day!

Wendy 🙂