My words will be few today. With the tragedy of what occurred in Boston yesterday afternoon I think it is important that I apply restraint and not say too much. There is a danger in commenting on what happened too much so that today’s blog might seem opportunistic, using an act of terror against America as a platform to vent out my personal thoughts and feelings on issues that touch on this horrible event. Instead I leave us some ancient counsel from the wisest of men, King Solomon, who wrote about 3,000 years ago,
“Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out.” – Proverbs 24:19-20 {ESV}
Whoever is responsible for the bombings fits the biblical description of the evildoer above. Theologically speaking, we all fit that description because sin is inherently evil and we are all classified as sinners. Yet there are occasions when evil takes on a ruptured form and spills forth in acts of inhumane cruelty such as we observed yesterday from 3 PM until we fell asleep. Evildoers are unilaterally described as futureless, people whose days of illumination and perception will come to a permanent end. It is not that they will cease to exist, it is that their existence will be darkened and extinguished from anything remotely resembling the freedom they have enjoyed while alive, a freedom which they utilized to ignore or defy their Maker. Solomon tells us to carry on and to choose a life of unfretful continuance. Keep living your life and do not allow the weapon of fear which your soul’s enemy loves to wield cut off your sense of God’s presence. Do not let the evildoers win by causing you to look for the next round of mayhem from them.
Look forward instead to the coming of a Righteous King who has promised to balance the scales. Make sure you have heard Him before He comes to do so. What He says in His book is of prime importance because it tells you the weight on the other side of the scale against which we will be measured. By His grace, I have been made ready.
Will you be also?
I am ready. God is the only one capable of balancing those scales, as you’ve written.
There are heinous offenses that cannot be reconciled by our courts because even the most punitive judgement leaves the innocents still wrestling.
My prayer is that innocents harmed by this will allow God to heal them.