Inspirational
Who Gets The Bullet?
Two of our church friends, a young couple, were shot at close range.
Hit by one bullet each, the wife died on the spot; the husband had some breath left.
Instantly, kith and kin went on their knees to pray for God to save his life. He never woke up.
They left behind three children—the youngest of whom is only five years old. What breaks our heart to pieces is, in less than 24 hours, the life of these kids made a sharp turn. That morning these innocent ones had both parents. In the evening they had caskets.
For whatever reason, nothing is grave enough to give anybody the right to snuff out lives.
Life does not come cheap. It is a precious grace from the One who created it. Every fiber of our being had been carefully knitted together from nothing into something wonderful by God.
Can we ever explain such dastardly barbaric crime?
Those who brazenly pulled the trigger can fabricate all the excuses for such an act, but they will not get past the great Judge on Judgment Day, which might come sooner than we think.
“Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace.” Daniel 12:2
We live in a cruel world where flowers and weeds co-exist. Both get the same grace of rain and sunshine to grow.
But then the weeds crowd out the flowers, till the beauty is gone and the pesky, unwanted weeds reign supreme.
I use the weeds-and-flowers metaphor now because bullets remind me of weeds. Unless we pluck them out, they will continue to hide or kill the beauty of flowers. But who does the plucking? Certainly not earthlings like us who live in a fallen world.
We can only make a choice—to preserve the warmth and beauty of life or join those who pull the trigger of coldblooded guns.
The assurance of those who believe in Christ is . . . if ever one bullet at close range killed our body, it could not kill our spirit.
We continue to pray for the three children’s comfort and beg God to make them grow up in His light and that the people who surround them become their surrogate parents in every way possible.
