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Sunday, December 16, 2012

The Newtown, Connecticut Horror

The entire world is trying to sort out the whys and wherefores of the horrific massacre which occurred in Newtown, Connecticut, where a gun-wielding madman callously murdered 27 people, 20 of whom were small children.


No one can really know what these students, parents, and family members must be going through, except for what we can extract from the wall-to-wall news coverage taking place. Maybe there's too much coverage. Maybe the networks and news outlets should let these people mourn a bit more privately. If I was one of these deeply grieving parents, the last thing I would want is a camera crew following me around.

What these folks do need is the comfort and peace that God can and will pour out to those who ask and seek His divine comfort. Our family, church, and group of prayer warriors are hoping and praying God will envelope these people and the entire community with His comforting Holy Spirit.

Inevitably the question always arises how God could allow such an atrocity to take place. It's a question rooted in emotion, but the answer is quite matter of fact. Just think about it. We are all free moral (or immoral, as the case may be) agents and we all are free to choose. The bad guys have that same choice. Time and chance happens to all men. 

The choices we make have consequences and very often innocent people end up paying the ultimate price for the wrong choices of someone else.

Still, that explanation isn't very comforting to those who are hurting.

Bible readers know as we draw closer to the time when Jesus Christ will return, society is going to become more violent.

Here's what it says in II Timothy 3:1-5:  "But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them."  (NIV1984)

Sadly, this wasn't the first school massacre and it's not going to be the last. Within days of this horrific shooting, one would-be, copy-cat shooter at  Fashion Island mall in Los Angeles fired at least 50 shots before he was stopped. Fortunately, no was was hit.

While the entire nation prays and reaches out to Newtown, we are already seeing schemers in  Government rushing to make "good use" of this atrocity by demanding the president take 'Immediate Action' against guns. No surprise here.

The real cause of crime is never addressed.

Our second president and one of our founding fathers wisely proclaimed this:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -John Adams
As a nation, we need to take a long hard look at ourselves and reflect on where we are. Will we continue to spiral out of control into an immoral and violent abyss, or will we turn to God in real repentance and ask Him to mercifully save us?


Posted by Rich Glasgow

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