By: T. Spindler 06/01/2012
Our great nation has been diminishing its greatness over the last 30 years by taking God, especially Jesus, out of the proverbial picture. If one actually looks at a picture of our country one can see only the frame, around an indistinguishable image of meaninglessness.
God was once the center of that picture. He sent his son to die for our sins, and show us how to live, what rules to keep, how to have meaning in our lives. Many Americans don’t even know who Jesus was and is, or what it means to be a Christian. Our teachers have little control of student behavior because they aren’t allowed to reinforce the Christian values that parents are teaching at home, if they are even teaching them at home. The greatest lover of all mankind is not being taught about. What has happened to our educational system?
When I did my student teaching back in the ‘60s, I worked in several public schools and with quite a few teachers. One of those teachers, I will never forget. Sometimes when I walked by her 3rd grade classroom, I’d hear her class singing. So, one day, I told her I’d be working in a Christian camp that next summer and needed some song ideas. Several days later she called me in, her whole class stood up, faces beaming, and they sang their little hearts out. She then gave me song sheets to take with me to camp. My heart swelled with joy and excitement, not only because they did that just for me, but also because they were all so proud to be singing to me about Jesus, Jacob and other Bible characters. I wish I had kept in touch with that teacher, because I really need to give her a huge hug.
What a difference it would make if our state and national legislators stood up and sang a few Christian songs at the beginning of their sessions. I think they’d get along much better. The way things are now, they don’t seem to realize or care that their behaviors and some of the terrible laws they pass are so displeasing to God, and even in defiance of him. They did manage to put “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, but many don’t say those two words; and many others are trying to get them taken out.
Such is the state of what was once a great country. As America goes, so goes the world. We’re all going down. Each of us can individually save ourselves by believing in our savior, Jesus, and following his floor plan for our lives. But it sure would’ve been grand if our nation had stayed together and kept God in the picture. A nation divided against itself cannot stand.
T. Spindler,
Webber-Camden