"We've Lost Our Respect For Life"

Well the statistics are in for the year 2012. The homicide rate for our major cities are alarming. Los Angeles came in at 297, Philadelphia at 331, Detroit at 411, New York at 414, and Chicago at a whopping 505. Mayor Dave Bing of Detroit is quoted at saying, "We've lost our respect for each other; we've lost respect for life." Planned Parenthood also came in with their statistics too. In the year 2012 they aborted 333,964 babies, that comes to an average of one every 94 seconds. The year before they killed 329,445 innocent children. That makes their total for two years 663,409 babies that were aborted by their clinics. Over a half of million babies in two years. The nation mourns at the atrocity of a person shooting innocent children in a schoolroom and we should. Its tragic. But not many mourn about statistics mentioned above. The Bible tells us in the Book of Titus that people outside of Christ are enslaved with all kinds of passions and pleasures living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. (Titus 3:3 NIV) Because of our godlessness we are becoming a much more hateful nation and taking our hatred out on one another. We are paying the price of turning our back on God and His Word. How true God's Word is when it says, "Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap." (Galatians 6:7 NKJV) We've sown godliness and now we are reaping it. Please join me in prayer putting the principles of 2 Chronicles 7:14 into practice this year. Our only hope is revival.