There were more shootings across the nation this weekend. An 18 year old walked into a store and shot 13 people, killing many of them. We immediately want to start laying blame in many places, instead of the one place that it really should fall. 

For example, dare we talk about the possibility of violent video games being involved in this shooting? The shooter used a popular streaming service for gamers to live stream the shooting. Should we talk about how that is perhaps a concern? Kids believe that they can shoot someone and they simply get to start a new game, but that's not how life works. 

Or perhaps we talk about the main accusation. The media and others immediately jumped on this shooting as a racially motivated shooting. That could be the case. The shooter could have been looking to kill people of a different color, but that continues to ignore all the other things. We shouldn't so quickly jump to a conclusion when there is obviously a much simpler answer. 

That answer is that we are a nation who has denied God His place in our nation. We have been more interested in forcing Him out of our nation, than letting Him in. The very teachings of scripture build a moral foundation for life. But we took that out of schools. We have taken prayer out of schools. God has no place in American society it seems.

God has been taken out of our homes. He has been taken out of our personal lives. Then we want to question why the wickedness in our nation is happening? We really want to question why there is a lack of morality and concern for others when we have said that God does not exist or that God is not important. Rather than driving us to find answers, these events should drive us to realize that we need God now more than ever. It should drive us to our knees to ask God back into our nation and to intervene.