The Real Reason

Two weeks ago, May 11, 2024, Harrison Butker, the placekicker for the Kansas City Chiefs, delivered a commencement speech at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. His speech was insightful, inspiring, and full of truth. After he spoke, certain people and particular groups of people got mad. They started spreading hate and called for him to be released from the Kansas City Chiefs!

This bothered me a lot! Their words were so mean and ugly, downright hateful. Ironically, they expressed their opinions with their free speech, but they didn’t like it when Mr. Butker did. What makes their views right? Just because they are on TV or are screaming louder than everyone else? Since then, there has been a mighty outpouring of love and support for Mr. Butker. I was so glad to see it.

I started thinking, Why are these people so upset? Why do they care what this man said? It was his opinion! Then it hit me, the real reason why they got so mad. Harrison Butker spoke the truth about men, women, God, and life. Those who got angry are living a lie and don’t want anyone to confront them with the truth! They are engaging in the lies that Satan has sold them, like their identity isn’t the one they were born with, and they will only find happiness with someone of the same sex. Sadly, they have settled for his lies instead of waiting for God’s truth! If they listened to God speak through Harrison Butker, they would be set free. For the Truth will set you free. (John 8:32)

Jesus told him, “I am the Way—yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of me. John 14:6 (TLB)

The sum of Your word is truth [the total of the full meaning of all Your individual precepts]; and every one of Your righteous decrees endures forever. Ps. 119:160 (AMPC)

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isa. 55:9 (AMPC)

Every good gift and every perfect (^[a]free, large, full) gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of all [that gives] light, in [the shining of] Whom there can be no variation [rising or setting] or shadow cast by His turning [as in an eclipse]. Jam. 1:17 (AMPC)

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Jesus told him, “I am the Way—yes, and the Truth and the Life. No one can get to the Father except by means of me. John 14:6 (TLB)

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