God Rules

Daniel 4

God can humiliate us and restore us. God has the final word on all things in our lives.God will always know what's going on in our lives. When things are going well, God is there, reminding us to honor Him. Every knee shall bow and every tongue must confess that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. The Sovereign and Omnipotent God is Mighty. I can do nothing on my own, it is God Almighty that allows me to succeed. Thank You Lord for blessing everything that I am and everything that I have is because of you Lord.

Father God I know today there will be many people who are in favor of having legal guns in our city. I understand their frustration. If the bad guys are armed then the good guys need to protect themselves, but guns in the hands of unskilled users will produce more carnage. We already have young hot heads who dont have any coping skills or conflict management techniques out killing for the smallest reason. Now we will have older residents, who have been held in fear out killing, or being killed because they now think they can take back their neighborhood with a gun.

The NRA is coming in under the pretense of promoting safe gun usage. Learn how to use a gun, lock up your gun. But the real agenda is "fight back" with a gun. They have guns, now you can have a gun. Kill or be killed. They are promoting the fear agenda. You have been terrorized long enough, now its your turn to get even. So what will that actually look like in the community. Let's say that one block has decided to purchase guns, through their block club, so of course they have a discount, due to the large purchase they have just made. Now every house on the block has a gun. Are they all locked up securely? I know that children are curious. Let us not forget the sherriff woman who left her gun in the glove compartment, left one grandchild in the car, went into daycare to pick up another, and within a matter of minutes, the child in the car was dead, due to curiosity.

Do the gun owners know how to be responsible? This was an individual who uses a gun for a living and she was careless for just one moment in time. How are people who are not used to guns going to respond? What about the store owner with an itchy trigger finger? Now when someone just looks like they are going to steal they will get a gun pulled in their face. What about the innocent bystanders? I do understand the fight fire with fire argument, but there is just something wrong with everybody toting a gun. It doesn't change the method of getting a gun illegally. They will still get a gun. Now they have more homes to break into to search for guns. Now people will get the opportunity to take another human beings' life and live with that decision and consequence. Fear begets fear. We are now enforcing fear and validating fear and being fearful and hurtful to others is the norm.

The NRA will have strong supporters in the black community because they are looking like a savior to a community that has been riddled with gun violence for so long. The thought is we now have people who want to help us get back, get even, level the playing field. Its interesting that they want to help put more guns in our hands but cant help with our school system or promote non violent programs to stop the violence in the first place. Are we talking about shooting ranges being built or do we just have target practice on the street? NRA should not be promoting killing more black people. Whether its our youths with illegal guns or adults with legal guns. Gun ownership is a choice that should not be promoted as if its the only alternative to keeping our community safe. Lock and load, so you can be safe. How disgusting.

Be blessed and be a blessing to someone today. I love you and pray for you today and everyday.