If I hold this thing in any longer, I'll burst. What's on my mind has been there for a few weeks now, I didn't feel like I should write about it. Well, I've tried, but it never came out right. There's something that Sterling (on K-LOVE) said before the song "Come As You Are" by Pocket Full Of Rocks came on... she was talking about the '30 Day No Mumblin, No Grumblin, Quick to Forgiven Challenge' and what stuck with me, was right when she said something about treating people with love, because, to be honest, how do we know if that girl whose sitting infront you, or that teenager at the coffee shop that you see there all the time, how do you know they're not questioning God? How do you know they're not planning on commiting suicide that night because things aren't going right and no one's seeing it?
How can you be so certain that that smile they just gave you, isn't fake, and it's just coming from a broken heart just screaming to be heard because every night they go home, their parents fight? Or when they go home, they get beaten by dad for something that had nothing to do with them, yet they pay the price... and what about before they go to bed? is it another beating or is it a prayer, a kiss on the forehead and an "I Love You" or is it a cruel slap to the face or their entire body? All because mom's day didn't go right? And what about when they go to school? What do they say? Or do they just not say anything at all? and no one bothers to ask because they're too scared and don't want to hurt them anymore, I don't think you'd hurt them, you might help them out and actually make them feel like, for the first time in their life, that finally someone sees that they're not okay.
I honestly don't know anyone who has to go through any of that. I know I went into detail with that, but I did it on purpose. I know people go through this, and other things that are much much more cruel... I've heard about them and they've all broken my heart. I knew that after I heard about them, I just had to do something about it.
I decided not to post the music video for a reason, the song is sad and it's someone's story. So I decided to post something with pictures that dealt with child abuse or any type of abuse. Are you getting what I'm trying to say? It's important that you get it, and then do something about it. Who knows, these people are probably your friends, or maybe it was you at some point. This song, breaks my heart even more than the song "Concrete Angel" by Martina Mcbride... it's "Alyssa Lies" by John Michael Carrol.
I'm not even sure what to say, this song destroys me... I know what it's saying is true. The first thought that comes to my mind, is the other teenagers that go to my high school. How many of them are covering up scares? How many of them, when they go home, get a beating? all because they walked in and guess who didn't have a good day at work and guess who has to pay the price for something they had no control over? They get the beating all because the parent doesn't know how to handle their anger and so therefore, they go after their own child and make them suffer. How many of them will get so sick of the pain and the beatings and the constant verbal abuse, that the only thing they know to do is hurt themselves? Or maybe their parents are fighting every night, and that child blames themselves, and then their parents get a divorce? and whatever hope they did have, is now crushed, and they have easy access to a gun, walk onto a school campus with pain in their heart, a gun in their pocket, and make a very tragic move and either kill themselves right then and there or kill the other students that are standing around?
and what if that's the student in your youth group? And the pastor keeps making up excuses not to share the gospel in every service, and will only do it when it's convient. . . why not expose them to the truth about Jesus at the end of every service? There's no acceptable excuse for not doing what you've been called to do.
My little girl laid her head down that night to go to sleep.
As I stepped out the room, I heard her say a prayer so soft and sweet
"God bless my mom and my Dad
and my new friend, Alyssa
*oh*I know she needs you bad
Because Alyssa lies to the classroom,
Alyssa lies everyday at school,
Alyssa lies to the teachers
as she tries to cover every bruise"
Those lyrics really hit me hard. I don't want to think that there are students at my high school who go through this, but I bet there are. It's a heart breaking thought. How many of them are hiding their bruises because they don't want to explain what happens at home? Makes me wonder where are the Christians at... shouldn't we be reaching out to people like what Jesus did? What about that uncool kid who is always sitting alone? Or what about that kid who goes to the bathroom during the lunch period and doesn't come out til the bell rings?
I know I've said alot of questions, but here's the one that I need you to answer; are you truly willing to risk your friendships over the truth? I am. This breaks my heart, I hate seeing people who don't know Jesus... and I hate seeing that "bound for hell" sign on their foreheads... Your friends need hope. They need to be loved. You know the truth, what are you going to do about it? Do you truly love your friends enough to risk your friendship with them over what is true?
Share the truth about Jesus with 3 people this week.
One Friend.
One Family Member.
One Stranger.
Here's another challenge: go to the mall, by yourself, and find a place to sit for 30 minutes, and imagine that "bound for hell" sign on the people that pass by...
"When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd." Matthew 9:36
--- I was being rushed to write this and had a thousand interruptions. but I hope you got what I was trying to say.
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