Yesterday I was sitting in my office early in the morning and I got a news alert that there had been a shooting on live tv in Virginia. A beautiful young lady, her camera man, and the lady they were there to interview were shot by a coward. I almost immediately knew what I would hear next. Politicians started rallying to either one side or the other. One said we need more gun control and the other said we need to realize that this was a crazed act by a lone individual.
This was an act perpetrated by a man. A very sick and disturbed man. He made the decision to take two lives in order to gain some measure of self respect that he felt he had lost. He wanted to make a point. And sadly these two innocents paid the price for his problem.
And what was his problem?
It is the same problem that you and I suffer with. We are a sinful people living in a fallen world. He made the choice to act on the sin that was in his heart. He chose to get the gun. He chose to drive to the location where these young people were filming that day. He chose to load the gun. He chose to film it. He chose to upload it to Twitter so that it could be sent out to the masses. So he could "tell" everyone how much he had been mistreated and abused.
My question to you is this:
Would the outrage have been any less if they were killed with a machete? What about a bomb? What if he simply beat them to death with a rock? Would we be clamoring to ban knives or rocks?
What I saw yesterday was simply pure evil poured out on three innocents. Three lives lost. All due to evil and sin. And it will happen again. Until the Lord chooses to return and heal this world from the sinful and fallen nature that it is.
What we are seeing here with all these so called "mass shooters" is something that has been plaguing the world ever since Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge. Sin! Plain and simple.
We all carry around and commit various sins in our lives. Little white lies are no worse a sin than the murders committed by that sad man yesterday. In God's eyes, unless we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior we will all burn for eternity. It isn't the gun that caused that man to snap yesterday. It is the plague of sin in his life. If you allow it sin will rule and ruin your life. It happens in gradual amounts until finally you are left despondent and wanting relief that you feel will never come. But if you choose the relief will come. All you have to do is ask Jesus to take the burden from you. Humble yourself to the fact that your life isn't yours anyways. It always has belonged to Him. Don't allow the sin to ruin your life like it did that young man. Not only did it ruin his life, it affected the reporter and her family, the camera man and his family, and everyone that has witnessed it. Sin touches everyone everywhere and yesterday is a prime example of the pain and heartache that it causes.
This was an act perpetrated by a man. A very sick and disturbed man. He made the decision to take two lives in order to gain some measure of self respect that he felt he had lost. He wanted to make a point. And sadly these two innocents paid the price for his problem.
And what was his problem?
It is the same problem that you and I suffer with. We are a sinful people living in a fallen world. He made the choice to act on the sin that was in his heart. He chose to get the gun. He chose to drive to the location where these young people were filming that day. He chose to load the gun. He chose to film it. He chose to upload it to Twitter so that it could be sent out to the masses. So he could "tell" everyone how much he had been mistreated and abused.
My question to you is this:
Would the outrage have been any less if they were killed with a machete? What about a bomb? What if he simply beat them to death with a rock? Would we be clamoring to ban knives or rocks?
What I saw yesterday was simply pure evil poured out on three innocents. Three lives lost. All due to evil and sin. And it will happen again. Until the Lord chooses to return and heal this world from the sinful and fallen nature that it is.
What we are seeing here with all these so called "mass shooters" is something that has been plaguing the world ever since Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge. Sin! Plain and simple.
We all carry around and commit various sins in our lives. Little white lies are no worse a sin than the murders committed by that sad man yesterday. In God's eyes, unless we accept Jesus Christ as our Savior we will all burn for eternity. It isn't the gun that caused that man to snap yesterday. It is the plague of sin in his life. If you allow it sin will rule and ruin your life. It happens in gradual amounts until finally you are left despondent and wanting relief that you feel will never come. But if you choose the relief will come. All you have to do is ask Jesus to take the burden from you. Humble yourself to the fact that your life isn't yours anyways. It always has belonged to Him. Don't allow the sin to ruin your life like it did that young man. Not only did it ruin his life, it affected the reporter and her family, the camera man and his family, and everyone that has witnessed it. Sin touches everyone everywhere and yesterday is a prime example of the pain and heartache that it causes.
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