The rash of school shootings in recent years caused some Americans
to reexamine lifes priorities. The events of September 11 caused us all
to rearrange priorities.
The rash of school shootings in recent years caused some Americans
to reexamine lifes priorities. The events of September 11 caused us all
to rearrange priorities.
We have bowed at the altar of the almighty dollar, paid homage
to a culture of pleasure and exalted the virtues of materialism. We have devalued
the importance of human life, reduced its immeasurable beauty and wonder to
statistical measures and redefined human worth in terms of productivity. We
have neglected proper worship of God and have confined him to a spiritual dustbin
to be opened only in case of a wedding or funeral, if at all.
Events expose the fallacy of moral relativism. We saw the face
of EVIL, and it was horrid beyond our wildest nightmares. Surely no thinking
person could observe such an event and opine that some absolute standard of
good and evil does not exist in the world. Our nation has lost its sense of
right and wrong, truth and falsity, evil and good. A nation unwilling to accept
a minimum standard of morality is perched dangerously over the abyss of meaninglessness.
After the Gulf War, many believed spiritual awakening was near.
It never came. It is too early to determine whether the sudden interest in prayer
and worship in America will survive the immediate crisis to make a lasting impact.
The chances seem better.
People are not thinking primarily about where they will eat
dinner tonight, whether the Saints will win their game or where they can watch
the hottest movie. They are focused upon lifes most important priorities.
This hope drives me as a pastor, chaplain and SLU instructor to work hard while
reflecting upon the blessed hope of Jesus Christ, who one day will wipe away
every tear from our eyes and hold us in His arms.
Kenneth Brown, Pastor
Lighthouse Baptist Church – Independence