I was on youtube.com the other day looking for a song from a movie called "Letters to God" and instead I found this song "Dear Mr. Jesus" The song is done by a little girl asking God to protect all the little boys and girls from child abuse. Me being a mother of two little girls ached for all the other girls and boys out there in the middle of this song. I got on my knees and prayed. I had no idea what to do but was overwhelmed by the emotion and words of the song. The pictures on the video made it even worse. I was in tears and had to do the research myself. I was quickly pulled back into my own child hood. Abuse comes in so many forms in which I experienced, but I was lucky compared to these little girls and boys. Then I remembered Jon Dupin doing a teaching one Sunday morning on "Why bad things happen to good people?' As you can guess I was looking for my notes from church from that cold Sunday morning.
Found them! When we think of good people and bad people, we are sent into a state of judgement set out there by our society NOT GOD. To God, sin is sin. It all hurts him and will be answered for one day. So, who are we to judge what is good and what is bad if sin is sin. God is judge, NOT US! However, me being human was not content with just that answer. It still fueled the fire growing inside me. The punishment never fits the crime, and the ones that commit these foul acts aren't really even punished by God if they accept Him in prison or where ever they are at nor do they seem to really struggle as we have a cozy prison enviroment compared to other countries. Doesn't God love us and protect us? Sure don't seem like it. Lets take a look at the statics from a few years ago.
In 2006 it was estimated 1530 children in the US died to some form of abuse/neglect. That number steadily rose an additional 230 more kids in the United States by 2007. Yeah it is on the rise, and this is just what we know of. In 2007 the increase averaged out to be 2.35 children per 100,000 and out of that figure 51.1% were little girls and 48.2% were boys. These children either died from malnutrition, sexual abuse, physical abuse, or just plain neglect. In 2007 out of all the deaths that occurred 78% were under the age of 4. By God does your heart just melt at that? Also, out of the amount for 2007, 97.5% died by the abuse/neglect by their biological parents. People we trust. I'm horrified at the numbers and the fact that this is growing from year-to-year. Does God even care anymore? In 2002 there was almost 53K little boys and girls around the world that were killed due to abuse/neglect. How, can we be satisfied with this growing issue?
Lets try to look at this from a spiritual point-of-view. Romans 8 is where I am referencing from now. Why would God allow this to happen, such injustice, unbelief, and despair. This pain and hurt that leads us to questions Gods intentions and love for His children? In chapter 8 Paul is writing and states that we live in a world of suffering and pain. We live in a fallen and unfair world and a world that knows good and evil. However, above that we have God's promise to redeem and make new again. In Romans 3 Paul talks about how we categorize people when we ourselves are sinners. As I stated sin is sin. Period.
God doesn't categorize for that reason and He doesn't see as good or bad for we all sin and it all is hurtful to God. We need to understand that sin is sin and by His grace we are saved and all will be redeemed. God always makes right what is wrong. We will be punished for our sins and He waits patiently on the wicked so that we may have the opportunity to experience His grace. God says surrender for everyone has sinned and fallen short and we are all equal and God doesn't judge our sin to levels of bad to worse because sin is sin. So, we should NOT judge and take each situation as a way to draw ourselves and others closer to Him instead of sitting on the side line judging others and pulling further away from God and His grace. So quit judging what is good and what is bad because as stated before SIN IS SIN and all sin hurts God and pulls us away from Him. Just trust in His promise to redeem and make new even if we don't understand at that moment, God knows what is best for us and He will never leave us nor forsake us. Just trust.
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