This is our third Chritsmas without our Dad and Mokena Baptist without their Pastor. Yes, the church has gone on but there are still times of remembrance. One thing I remember my husband saying you can't legislate righteousness. You can't pass laws and expect sin to end. Of course I expect a new gun law controlling these type of guns. And more safety concerns at schools. But that doesn't control the heart of men.
More laws don't really stop the lawless. There is only one who can change a man's way and that is God himself. We have a heart problem in America. We need to be a nation that has a heart for God and to respect his teachings.
There is only one who can change a nation, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. This is the true reason for the season. This is the reason he came to earth. He taught peace, love, forgiveness and a desire to live right.
There is no way to really know what went wrong. A young man from a single parent home who deeply needed something in his life. A mother who struggled most his life to try to help him. Psychiatrists have tried to explain what happened but he needed the Great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Jesus was the greatest physician who came to earth. The gospel of John says at the end that books could not contain all the healing works he did on earth.
What can change a heart? God reaching down to man and man reaching up to God and receiving Christ as Lord and Saviour. This is what this young man needed. You can't legislate righteousness, but you can change a person's heart with the help of God.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and Thou Shalt be Saved."
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