Here we are. The day after a tragedy…local & national. Devastated. Bereft. Inconsolable. Collectively, we mourn the massacre at the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, on 3/27/23. Lines are drawn. Platforms are declared. Sides are chosen. To what end? Three babies…9 year olds…BABIES…are dead. Three adults-in-charge-of-babies are dead. Perp is dead. So. Much. Death.
Facts: the perpetrator was evil….broken somewhere deep within…you know, the whole-hurt-people-hurt-people-thing. The victims…just going about their day…mowed down by hate, & evil, & brokeness. Lives cut short by Satan himself.
What can we do? How do we fix this? Is the answer political?….like can our tottering, blubbering, feeble-embarassment-of-a-President do something? No. Can our Congress-of-division repair the thing? Apparently not. Can more laws governing objects (i.e., guns) fix decades of family-disintegration-&-collapse? Nope.
Who is to blame? Where doth the finger point? This ugliness…this death…is as old as man. It started in a particular garden, called Eden, & we pay the price even today. The headline-du-jour is a sin issue, plain & simple. Tragic. For the commiter-of-crime, AND for the innocent victims-of-chance. To ignore history is to repeat it. Same song, different weapon.
So what is the remedy? Revival. In the words of Webster: revival is to live again, regain health, to recover. The cure is spiritual. I care not for your eye rolls. I care not for your dispute. The only way to fight this present, insidious, foul villain is to hit our knees. To utter a prayer in response to evil…to cry out to our Creator, our Savior, our God…to slash open the underbelly of darkness…to disarm malevolent forces…to hamstring the ruler of this present time. There is no other way.
Do you know how to pray? Do you know how to engage the attention of the Creator of the entirety of everything? It is not only possible, it is simple. Say. Something. Speak. Cry out. Ask. And don’t stop.
Please indulge me as I insert a well-placed scripture in this space:
2 Corinthians 10:3-3: 3 For although we do live in the world, we do not wage war in a worldly way; 4 because the weapons we use to wage war are not worldly. On the contrary, they have God’s power for demolishing strongholds. We demolish arguments5 and every arrogance that raises itself up against the knowledge of God; we take every thought captive and make it obey the Messiah.
Pray for our leaders. Not a rhetoric-filled, bleeding-heart, misplaced-compassion-kind-of-prayer. Pray for wisdom. From on high. Pray for peace. Pray for comfort. Did I mention wisdom? Pray hard, my darlings.
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