Open letter of another broken heart father
who lost his beloved child to negligence.
Spirit Control vs. Gun
Control
Guns give
advantage.
It discourages the attacker as his advantage
disappears before others who have the same advantage to meet them with equal
deadly force.
Let us call things by its name. He who knows to have advantage and seeks to use its
advantage in a fight, also knows that he will win; knowing that before the
fight make him, “A COWARD” because he is not risking anything.
But
he, who walks softly and carries a Big Stick, does not look for a fight because
violent fighters do not walk softly. Bullies charge
confident on their advantages.
Walking softly communicates none threatening
behavior while the Big Stick is a dissuasive element in the equation on human
relationships.
The mental illnesses of some criminals
are but a small portion of society that is
rather the exception than the rule. It should not be the determining factor in
legislation because it is not representative of the majority of our society.
Guns are not the only means for mass murders of
ideologically deranged people use. As we have seen in 911 planes, car bombs,
vehicles and buses or even Garbage trucks can be weaponized.
A lasting solution is not something unknown to
us or is in the making as if a bright mind will come up with a silver bullet to
save us from our predicament.
The fact the Billy Graham died does not mean
that there is no one left among men to think God’s thoughts for society. Let every true believer raise and “think tank” and
remember that this is our father’s world and let us not forget that we have
been trained and equipped with the Spirit and Word of God to draw from the
wisdom of God insights for our problems.
God himself in Jesus emasculated his enemies by
taking away as from a scorpion the sting of death by removing the advantage of
our cowardly enemy leaving him as harmless as paper tiger.
The idea is to disarmed by all means available
and take away the advantage of the coward enemy that like Goliath challenges
the small and weak in confidence, pride and arrogance.
Cowards know little that a small stone in the hands
of a faithful man can not only defeat but also decapitate the otherwise bully
of the block.
Unless we face our problems in trusting faith
and prayer, no amount of reinventing a new wheel will bring about any lasting
solution. America needs to go back to its “First Love”. That is to go back to
rescue the constitution which was based on the fear and word of God.
The “Lady Justice”, though blindfolded as good
as any blind person, holds a scale evenly balanced in one hand. She also holds
in her right hand the sword to execute justice “free from passion” less her
loving heart and open eyes may in motherly concern tilts the scale as the
mother of Jacob in favor of some.
Lady
Justice stands firmly on her beautiful legs on the solid ground of scripture as
she purposefully keeps the serpent under check and immobilized under the Book
of God and the God of all books the Bible. The serpent is unable to choke at
will its victims as it freely did to our first parents in the Garden.
Let me illustrate differently. The United
Nations building in New York has the figure of a dragon being killed by and
Angel. This monument was made out of the scrap of metal left over from ICBM
from Russia and the United States as a symbol of desire of peace and getting
away with weapons of mass destruction.
The
dragon has been killed at the end of the cold war. The question is; are we at
peace and security resting in our victory? The honest answer is that we are not
one little bit more secured than before.
In
fact the contrary is true. Out of the belly of the dragons like worms are being
born many small poisonous snakes making the world more unpredictable than ever
before. Nuclear proliferation is rampant.
While
nearsighted people are trying to convince our generation to let the serpent go
once again free to harm with its advantages to bully the world like
Goliath.
Every
crisis is also an opportunity and out time requires that Young and old to raise like David and face the Goliath’s of our time. David
clothed by Faith and belief in God in a childlike manner in God unwavering
faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus must step in the arena.
It
is time to make room for the Faith based initiatives and place them in every
school and universities to guard like watchmen on a tower against enemies
foreign and domestic. Remembering the words of a great leader who said wisely
that, “The Philosophy of the classroom in one generation will be the philosophy
of the government in the next generation”. I see Evangelism and discipleship as
God's given tools to not only make America great again but the world where our
Lord has put us as leaders. The world is longing for leadership today. Hard work but noble task.
We
need to encounter evil and it is seemingly advantages position in the arena of
ideas with the fear of the Lord that comes from a child like trust in God and
in agreement with his Word and to do the will of God according to scripture.
Let
us go back to our First Love and cast our net in our lake in the name of
Jesus.
Gerry
Gutierrez the father Keila who just left home along with uncle Billy Graham.