This morning I woke up to the news of a elementary school shooting in Connecticut that left 28 people dead, most of them being young children. MY GOD..." What has the world come to I thought". Then I realized that people have always been in need of love, hopeless,crazy,and without Christ. We are just seeing the fruit of a generation that tried to leave God out of everything. The world is growing weaker, and further away from God....and these tragedies in the past month alone are proving that. I find it amazing how people will fight so hard to keep the word "God" out of schools when that is where he is needed So badly. The fact that they will put a bible in a prison but not in a school is beyond heartbreaking.
I don't have any children, so I could not even begin to imagine the amount of pain that these parents are in. What I do KNOW is that God is the ULTIMATE healer and comforter. I KNOW that in the midst of some of the worst storms, God is the only thing that keeps us afloat.
Surprisingly, I immediately thought about the shooter. My heart felt so heavy when I did. I begin to wonder if anyone ever shared the love of God with him. I wondered how people get to such a place of brokenness without anyone noticing it. I realized that the shooter could have been anyone, in any walk of life,that had hit rock bottom. I begin to pray for him and his soul, simply because eternity is a very long time and he entered into it today with this being his last action.
I know that this holiday season is going to be hard for so many families who lost love ones. Not just the 28 from today,but for every family..mine included who are spending there first holiday without someone we love. I know that I am constantly hearing people say "we are living in the last days" and though we are unsure of exactly when that "last day" is ,we are sure of the fact that people are leaving this earth at a rapid pace. People are hurting, and the world is growing colder.Hug,love,forgive,reach out,pay attention,and arise. Just because we have today, doesn't mean we will have tomorrow.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5
"Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ."
