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Newsletter/Devotional>
Virginia Tech Why?
Why do these things happen? Why do innocent people die
everyday? Some people blame God and ask him why he allows
such atrocities. I have asked him after some tragedies in
my early Christian walk.
God created man with a special gift, the gift of free will.
We enjoy it every day. We can choose to love who we want
to, we can choose to love or reject Him, or we can choose
to do good or evil. Adam chose evil in the garden and since
then we all have that sin in us. God gave us a remedy for
our sin when He sent Jesus to take our punishment. Its an
easy plan because God wants us to be successful. It's
called being saved if you have questions about this write
me.
Some human beings can become very evil. Edmund Burke once
said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing". I am guilty of doing nothing at
times. Sometimes we get busy and caught up in our lives or
we are afraid to speak up and be ridiculed. Inside that
young man from Virginia Tech an evil grew. It was fed by
the music he listened to (I read the lyrics, one
song was about a massacre) and the video games he played
and no one stopped it. These people who snap take so many
innocent lives with them. Why? Because evil exists and
prospers in our society to a great extent. It is so sad.
Many young students woke up that day and got ready for the
school and had no idea what would happen that morning. If
you aren't sure that you are going to heaven if you die,
you can be. God made a simple plan.
My prayers go up for the families and the survivors of the
latest tragedy from Virginia Tech. How can we know what
they are going through, but God is there for them. Psalm
34 says that God is very close to those whose hearts are
breaking and that the good man does not escape troubles but
God helps him in each and every one. I pray that the
victims of this tragedy will feel the very heartbeat of God
as he whispers to them. We may not always know the reason
why a certain evil happens in our lives, but we can know
that we have a God that never leaves us or forsakes us. He
is there to help bear their burdens in these unbearable
times.
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