Everyone Did What Was Right In Their Own Eyes...

As I reflected this week over the sad news that has been reported over the past several months, I was totally blown away by the latest report (see report below as posted on World Magazine Blog).

"Brutal slayings over X-Box

Troy Victorino, 27, and three 18-year-olds beat to death six people last week over a dispute involving clothes and video games. One of the victims, who is believed to be Erin Belanger, had visited her grandparents' vacant winter home in Florida to go swimming, but instead found Victorino and his friends using it as a party spot. Belanger had them kicked out, but they left behind an X-Box and clothes. Victorino threatened that ''they were going to come back there and beat her with a baseball bat when she was sleeping."

All four suspects armed with aluminum baseball bats returned days later and murdered six people in the house. The father of one suspect said that his son ''was a good kid, he just got with the wrong crowd.'' This "good kid" contributed to beatings so gruesome that dental records were useless when identifying Erin Belanger's body. Sheriff Ben Johnson said, “This is the worst thing I've ever seen in my career.""

What is going on in our country? People being killed over a video game and clothes. Husbands killing their wives because they are pregnant. Husbands killing their wives because they found out they were lying. Activist judges redefining definitions of marriage and changing our culture with no checks or balances. Attempts to denigrate the flag and the pledge and the church. Cheap life. Cheap grace. No morals.

In the book of Judges, we read that the people in that day, "did what seemed right in their own eyes." I think we are living in a day similar to that now. So much for the concept by the liberals that man is inherently good and that if we just create community we will all get along and we will eliminate war and crime and strife. The Bible says that man is inherently evil and that every desire of his heart is evil. Look around you. What do your eyes tell you?

Regardless of the political rhetoric being spouted now by politicians, we cannot fix our world or our country through our efforts alone. We do not have the capacity within us to create utopia, no matter our desire. The sinful desires of our hearts will stop us from succeeding in trying to create heaven on earth.

The only way we are going to see change in America and in this world is through the blood of Jesus. The only way we are going to see change in our hearts is through the blood of Jesus. And, until the politicians recognize and apply this and bring our country back to its original Christian moorings, nothing will change. If we really want to see change in America, we need to heed the words of God in 2 Chr. 7:14, "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, and seek my face, then will I hear from heaven and forgive them their sins and heal their land."

How can you make a change? Follow God's words and start with your own life and your own household. And vote for candidates who hold strong Christian convictions and who will lead this country back to God. It's the only way we will ever survive.