Jesus wept
Friday morning. He wept for the grandparents that lost grandchildren, parents
that lost children, and brothers and sisters that lost siblings, children who
lost parents and maybe became orphans, and husbands and wives who lost their
lifemates.
Yes, Jesus
wept for the loss of children and adults Friday morning, and then at 930am
Eastern time, 28 more children and adults died in an elementary school in
Connecticut as a result of a 20 year old gunman.
You see,
before the 28 children and adults died in Ct. at 930am, over 1,000 children
were already aborted in the U.S. that day, and thousands of children worldwide had
already died of starvation, disease, and war. The tragedy in Ct. Friday morning
shocked our country, but countless children had already died Thursday, the day
before, and would die Sat., the day after, and die every day, and these deaths
rarely even get our attention. And Jesus
weeps.
Since the
shooting , there has been a resurrected outcry concerning the need for gun
control. That is understandable, but countless children died in the 1300 years
after Christ’s death before guns were invented, and countless died the
thousands of years before Christ was born. Less than 3 years after Jesus’ birth, all the
male children in Judea were killed, not by guns, but by the sword under Herod’s
decree.
Little is
yet known about the 20 year old gunman in Ct., but the press will flood us with
details of his life in the days to come. I do know this. He is part of the 2nd
generation of Americans who have been taught:
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that they have evolved from lower life forms
rather than lovingly created in the image of God
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that an unborn child is not known at
conception by a God who loves it and has a plan and purpose for its life, but
is simple a mass of tissue that can be disposed of if deemed inconvenient
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That
God and prayer have no place in the public arena, and anyone who disagrees is
narrow minded and intolerant.
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That
God’s blueprint for marriage and family is subject to man’s redesign.
No, I didn’t
know this young man, or the one at the theater in Aurora in July, or the ones
at Columbine and Virginia Tech, but I do know they lived in a world of
darkness, with a heart void of the Holy Spirit, and a mind lacking hope,
direction, and real purpose.
And Jesus
weeps.
How ironic
that that there is such a call for prayer in the aftermath of the shooting for
those families impacted, yet there are no public prayers allowed legally in the
school where it happened.
People cry
out that they do not understand how something like this can happen? How can
such evil exist? Jeremiah 17:9 tells us: “The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked, who can know it?” Gal. 6:7 tells us: “Do not be
deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also
reap.”
We have a
nation full of people like all people who have ever lived on the earth. Born in
sin, with deceitful and wicked hearts, capable of doing things that are not
understandable. Only through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit can hearts be
transformed. We have a society that mocks and rejects God’s Holy Spirit. We
have a society that has taught three generations of children that God’s spirit
has no place in our society or our lives. We have sowed these seeds, and we are
reaping that harvest. And Jesus weeps.
But why does Jesus weep? We really only read of Jesus crying in the Bible two times. He wept at the grave of Lazurus, not because Lazurus was dead but because Lazurus’ family and friends did not understand the hope Jesus brought. He wept over Jerusalem’s impending destruction by Rome, but not because people would die, but because they had rejected Him. Jesus weeps over the lostness of man, and that is why he wept Friday morning at 930am over the events in Ct.. That is why he wept at the grave of Lazurus, and over the city of Jerusalem.
But why does Jesus weep? We really only read of Jesus crying in the Bible two times. He wept at the grave of Lazurus, not because Lazurus was dead but because Lazurus’ family and friends did not understand the hope Jesus brought. He wept over Jerusalem’s impending destruction by Rome, but not because people would die, but because they had rejected Him. Jesus weeps over the lostness of man, and that is why he wept Friday morning at 930am over the events in Ct.. That is why he wept at the grave of Lazurus, and over the city of Jerusalem.
Matt. 10:28
says: “fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul;
but rather fear him which is able to destroy both body and soul in hell”
Through Christ “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
Through Christ “Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
Yes,
parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, wives, husbands and a nation wept
Friday. Jesus wept Friday and weeps every day over the lostness of man. During
Advent we are reminded that man’s lostness is why He came, and why He gave His
life for us.
