(WRITTEN 4/16/13)
If I turned on the news yesterday and was not told it was Boston I would have thought, "Another bombing in Israel." But no, this was right here in my own country and it seems to be getting closer to home (Indiana) all the time and it scares me. I feel a bit numb and not sure what to think. I know I was so angry to hear an 8-year old boy had died. This is the height of a cowardice act and innocent people were killed, hurt, limbs lost, and emotional scars for life. I prayed for the people of Boston and for those who did this to be found and justice served. But justice can only go so far, it cannot bring back to life an 8-year old boy.
This is pure evil. This is the sin fallen world we live in and try to live out a Christ-like life. I find myself wanting those evildoers to be tortured for their crime; then I think, "Does this make me any better than them with such hatred thoughts?" We as a race of humans live in the most tension-filled world with more violence than ever before and more sophisticated ways of hurting and killing each other and most times for no reason at all or no good sane reason. In some ways, we have become more barbaric than evolved. We should no longer complain with our noses up in the air about the awful Medieval days for we are no different and have not learned anything from that period of history!
I sit here wanting to have some brilliant answer for this act of evil in Boston and how to stop it from ever happening again. But I know something like this will happen again somewhere and perhaps even closer than Boston to Indiana. I do know that I must not give up hope in the good people that do exist in this sin-stained world. I do know that I must not give up hope in Jesus Christ who came to redeem the world from it's sin fallen state. I do know I must not give up hope in hope itself... for today we start to heal, for today we carry the heart of Christ into the world once again...
If I turned on the news yesterday and was not told it was Boston I would have thought, "Another bombing in Israel." But no, this was right here in my own country and it seems to be getting closer to home (Indiana) all the time and it scares me. I feel a bit numb and not sure what to think. I know I was so angry to hear an 8-year old boy had died. This is the height of a cowardice act and innocent people were killed, hurt, limbs lost, and emotional scars for life. I prayed for the people of Boston and for those who did this to be found and justice served. But justice can only go so far, it cannot bring back to life an 8-year old boy.
This is pure evil. This is the sin fallen world we live in and try to live out a Christ-like life. I find myself wanting those evildoers to be tortured for their crime; then I think, "Does this make me any better than them with such hatred thoughts?" We as a race of humans live in the most tension-filled world with more violence than ever before and more sophisticated ways of hurting and killing each other and most times for no reason at all or no good sane reason. In some ways, we have become more barbaric than evolved. We should no longer complain with our noses up in the air about the awful Medieval days for we are no different and have not learned anything from that period of history!
I sit here wanting to have some brilliant answer for this act of evil in Boston and how to stop it from ever happening again. But I know something like this will happen again somewhere and perhaps even closer than Boston to Indiana. I do know that I must not give up hope in the good people that do exist in this sin-stained world. I do know that I must not give up hope in Jesus Christ who came to redeem the world from it's sin fallen state. I do know I must not give up hope in hope itself... for today we start to heal, for today we carry the heart of Christ into the world once again...
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Be kind and gracious.