Kids Lives Matter

"All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them."
- Magic Johnson


Maddy was just a bubbly eight-year old girl doing what she loved to do, riding her scooter.
She would later that day become a missing child, only a few days later to be found in a dumpster.
How could such a beautiful day end so tragic?

Daniel was a five-year old boy who loved doing what probably any other five-year old boy would do, playing video games and sports. Then one night his mother locked the two of them in the car and set it on fire. How could a child's life end so tragically?

Two Oklahoma teenagers killed both of their parents and three of their siblings, ages 5,7and 12 in a night filled with rage. Who could do such a thing, especially to kids?

All of these are just a handful of news stories from one week here in America. Yep, all of this without even adding in here the Planned Parenthood humanely insane tragedy. With so much violence and hatred spilling out these last few months, America doesn't quite look like the country it once was or was intended to be. What's missing?

If there is darkness in our nation than there is a lack of light.

There's also a lack of all Christians reading God's Word. A recent study has shown 90 percent desire to please and honor God, yet don't read their Bible everyday. No matter how much social justice work you may get involved with in our society, you need to add hope to it, the one hope that matters most.

"You are my refuge and my shield; Your Word is my source of hope." - Psalm 119:114

If there's one group of people that need hope it's all the young, innocent children of the world. It doesn't matter what country you live in, like Magic Johnson said, "All kids need hope."

Light dispels darkness. And what illuminates that hope that we may provide others with is God, His presence, His Word. It is utterly impossible to do things on our own, no matter how much we want to or try to change the circumstances of others and deliver hope. We need to access that greater hope, the One who lives inside of us in order to illuminate others.

"Core values enable us to focus on God and be led by the Holy Spirit. We do not become embroiled in carnality, rather , we allow our responses to elevate us into the nature and character of God. So we must practice peacemaking, love, gentleness, self-control, and kindness." - Graham Cooke

If there is one thing America needs it's Christians of all faiths to focus on shedding it's light.

"No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a secret place or under a basket, but on a lampstand, that those who come in may see the light."  - Luke 11:33