When Will The Murdering Stop?
By Peggy Harris, August 29, 1993 Dedicated to those who have suffered the agony of sexual, emotional, physical, or spiritual abuse.

They have been psychologically murdered.
Mutilated, scarred, and spiritually dead they walk among us.
Abused sexually, physically, or emotionally.

Their destruction was coldly, calculated, and planned
by a brutal sadistic enemy, a pedophile
in the guise of a loving, friendly person.

Afterwards they are then abandoned
to walk like zombies
or to perpetuate the awful abusive acts that they experienced
by repeating them on other unsuspecting innocents.

Their childhood has been stolen,
replaced by hatred against
The Perpetrators
The Church,
Other Parents, and
Church Leaders that did nothing to stop this terrible death of INNOCENCE.
BECAUSE they say "it's just part of life in these modern times".

Who raises a voice against this blasphemy?
Who rises to their defense?
Who will stop this needless murder?

Lives still continue to be shattered from one generation to another.
Just like the Bible says, "unto the third and forth generation" the sins of
the fathers go on and on.
Hatred is created for their Creator.
They blame God for allowing this to go on unchecked.

Why don't we care enough to stop this horror?
Why do we stand by doing nothing?
When will this murder stop?
 
Some tell us, "Please don't rock the boat for
it will hurt our church's reputation".
Those who are "church leaders" are afraid to speak or act.
Others say, "This may be just the tip of the iceberg".
So the murdering continues on and on and on.
There is no end in sight.
The pain and anguish continues for a lifetime.
Some say, "Just leave it to God to take care of in His own good time!"

However, we will be held responsible
or the sins we do as well as
the sins we don't prevent.

How long can this cancer be suffered?
Has not God given us any direction?
Where are the "brother's keepers"?
Now is the time to stop this murder!

We can stop perpetuating this sin of abuse.
We must stop making them hide their pain in darkness.
There is HOPE!
There is a life to be renewed in the Holy Spirit.
There is healing to be extended to these wounded.

We do have a responsibility to stop the abuse and help them heal.
We are our brothers and sisters keepers!
If the perpetrators truly want to experience the saving grace of
forgiveness,
they will confess and repent of their sin,
and will enter long-term counselling.
They must not be allowed to have access to their victims.

Met head on (as we have been instructed) the healing will begin.
The dead will be revived.
The wounded will be restored.
With God's help we will stop permitting the murder to continue.

Notes: Matthew 18:3 (NKJV) ..."I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven." When the innocence of childhood is stolen how can this take place?

Exodus 20:13 (NKJV) "You shall not murder." We take this seriously when it involves life but what about the murder of innocence?  This is every bit as serious a matter to consider.

Child Guidance Chapter 83 Section "The Rewards" Page 561.  "When God asks, 'Where are the children?'   Parents who have neglected their God-given responsibilities must meet that neglect in the judgment.  The Lord will then inquire,   'Where are the children that I gave you to train for Me?  Why are they not at My right hand?'  When parents and children meet at the final reckoning, what a scene will be presented!  Thousands of children who have been slaves to appetite and debasing vice, whose lives are moral wrecks, will stand face to face with the parents who made them what they are.  Who but the parents must bear this fearful responsibility?   Were the sins of the parents transmitted to the children in perverted appetites and passions?"  (Emphasis supplied)

This plainly takes away any excuse for either parent, or parent substitute (such as relative, teacher, pastor, or other church leader) to look the other direction and do nothing when there is a child being abused either, sexually, physically, or emotionally abused.

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