Penn State is asking; "Am I My Brother's Keeper?"

What should be the closing of an incredible career for Joe Paterno, turns out to be a nightmare for him, his family, Penn State, the coaching staff and the list goes on.  But what about the victims?  Football is a game.  Did you read what I just wrote; FOOTBALL IS A GAME.  Sexual abuse is a CRIME and with children, it should be a capital offense!

What happened is not a "fumble" of "Success With Honor", it is a clear confirmation of what God has always said;


Jeremiah 17:9 NLT
The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately (incurably) wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?


One way of describing the heart of man is that it is "perverse, corrupt and fatally sick".  I am sickened by not only what happened to those children, but that grown men, supposed leaders, those we trust to train our younger men how to act, didn't just do nothing, but covered the incident up!  I am not surprised though.

First:  God our designer, knows us best.  His word states many times over our need for a new heart, one without sin.  He knew our dilemma from the beginning and made a way for us - if we choose it.  The Way is Jesus Christ, He left heaven to be born of a virgin, lived among us and bore our sins;


1 Peter 2:24 NASB
and He Himself (Jesus) bore our sins in His body on the cross, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you were healed.


What has happened at Penn State is not restricted to those people or location.  Sin has found each and every one of us.  The longer you refuse to acknowledge this truth, the more people including yourself that will be hurt.

Second:  Learn this truth and never forget it!  Teach this to your kids as the compass for decisions involving compromise;


Galatians 6:7 AMP
Do not be deceived and deluded and misled; God will not allow Himself to be sneered at (scorned, disdained, or mocked by mere pretensions or professions, or by His precepts being set aside.) [He inevitably deludes himself who attempts to delude God.] For whatever a man sows, that and that only is what he will reap.

I don't expect everybody to do things right, I haven't in my own life as many of you know, but when it comes to children, mine, yours and others - WE NEED TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

Matthew 19:14 KJV

(14)  But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.


We have a responsibility to our "brothers" and their children!