As the heartbreaking news of the school tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut filled the airwaves we couldn’t help but cry. My wife is a school-teacher. My mother, my brother and my sister-in-law teach. My grandmother was a teacher. This hit home. And it it hit hard.
Truthfully there are many mornings that I have driven my daughter to school and breathed out a prayer for her safety as she entered the school. Last Friday, a young man armed with incredible fire-power took the lives of 20 innocent children and several adults before shooting himself. We are living in trying times. In thinking about this young assassin and others who have recently perpetrated similar mass murder in schools, movie theaters, and street-corners, we are struck by their similiarities.
Powerlessness. These assassins are weak in character, weak in moral conviction, and weak in confidence. Years of pretending to be a hero proves corrosive and corrupting to their understanding of realities--spiritual and temporal.
Spiritlessness. I’ve yet to hear of one of these mass murderers who loved the Lord Jesus and was faithful to the House of God. Christ has been excluded from their homes. He has been excluded from their schools. He has been excluded from their communities. And finally excluded from their hearts. Men without Christ are capable of unspeakable atrocity.
Eternitylessness. A new word I know. But how else can we describe a generation that thinks that they can act here without consequence in the world to come? Those who reject God will finally be rejected by God. Eternity is long. God is not mocked. Whatsoever we sow we reap.
He came for you! He came to be your Savior. Change your mind and accept Christ. Believe on the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.
Amen.
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