Last week was another tragic week in America.  Two school teachers and 19 elementary school children were killed by an 18 year old gunman.  This is almost  becoming a weekly occurrence in this country.  Everyone is shouting for solutions.  Some for more mental health screening … some for stricter gun laws … some want to outlaw guns altogether … some want to arm the teachers … some want more police presence in our schools … and, of course politicians are always to blame depending which side you’re on.

Any one of these solutions may provide a temporary band aide for this problem, but the real problem lies much deeper.  And until people recognize the real problem, no solution will be found.  The god of this world, Satan (2Cor 4:4), has literally “blinded the eyes” of this nation to the problem so that we do not even consider the solution.  Pass all the laws you want, but the problem will continue.  The real issue lies in the breakdown of the family.  Amongst the majority, there is little respect for marriage … little respect for the God-odained family unit.  Let’s face it, 100 years ago, when people still had some respect for the Bible, did we have these kinds of problems?  But now, in our sex-craved, permissive society, that’s obsessed with violence, where many disparage any kind of authority, let alone the Bible, we see these problems waxing worse and worse, which is actually a fulfillment of prophecy (2Tim 3:13).

In 2Cor 10:3-5 we learn we are in a “spiritual” warfare that we fight with a spiritual weapon (which is the word of God (Eph 6:17).  Our goal is to bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.  Our present society mimics the society of Romans 1:18-32 where God simply says, “That’s enough, you suppress the truth, so you’re on your own, I give you over to your depraved and reprobate mind.”

We open up our computers, look at the radar and discern the weather;  we need to open up our Bibles, look at the Word of God and discern the signs of the times.

–Toby Miller