A rant...

Today, a friend on facebook posted this article about Kountze High School.  "District Superintendent Kevin Weldon banned the religious messages, including run-through banners at football games, after the Freedom from Religion Foundation told him that a resident had complained about the Bible verses."  Read the full article here...http://m.kltv.com/ms/p/si/117/view.m?id=124279&storyId=19604893

I reposted with "This is absurd! I am so over all of this "no God in schools" business!!!!!"  I got one comment.  A frownie face from my aunt. 

Am I frustrated?  YES!  Why?  Because we, as Christians, will post verses, ask for prayer, and talk about being blessed, but when it comes to standing up for Christ and our beliefs we like to shy away because we are taught not to FORCE our beliefs on other people.  And while, I agree that some times there are people in our lives who force church down people's throats, I also believe that we are taught to stand up for what we believe in. 

Why do we allow people to tell us what we can and cannot say?  How did we get to a place where we let a court or a government control when or where we pray, speak about God, or quote the Bible?  I mean for Heaven's sake, I didn't go to the government and say, tell all these athiest to pray with me!  Do it, do it now!  (Maybe I should have!)  I don't walk up to strangers and tell them to sit down and read the Bible with me.  We are grown, if you don't believe what I do, say no and walk away.  I do it to the Jehovah's Witness all the time.

I want to stand up for what is right in the eyes of the Lord, and taking God out of everything is not what is right.  How can we sit by and just let people run over us?  I believe WE are the majority.  WE, the people who believe in a higher power, WE, the people that live in this nation under God, WE, the people that believe we can pray together and be heard.  Why are the students of Kountze High School more willing to stand up for their beliefs than we are and why are WE not driving ourselves to Kountze to support the students of Kountze High School?  

I am ranting at you, but I am also ranting at myself.  I so WANT to make a difference, and here is an opportunity.  I am asking God to show me my purpose, and yet, instead of doing something or taking a chance, I sit here actionless.  Well, people, I am done with all of that.  I don't know where to start, but I am going to ask the Lord to guide my path.  I hope you will join me in my quest to better the world and spread the Word, either by prayer or action or both. 

Acts 6:7

So the word of God spread. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased rapidly, and a large number of priests became obedient to the faith.