Today, a senseless act of violence was committed in Boston, Massachusetts. terrorism is nothing new, of course. The best way that Christians can respond is to pray from the victims and the perpetrators. Then we ought to go about our business as usual. Christians know that justice is one aspect of salvation - are we are being saved. Justice is not complete. Vengeance is a dangerous response - and belongs only to God. Love your neighbor.
I am moved to re-post a poem by my late father. God met evil on the cross - absorbing all it's pain and fury into Himself.
AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH
The World is soiled now,
like sweat stained clothes
crumpled and cast aside,
trampled by boots heavy with filth,
all redolent of evil done.
Nothing now is certain,
Directions once safe now point to
quicksands and dark jungles.
Questions turn into riddles
that have no easy answers.
Poisoned clouds swirl round the globe.
Despairing faces cry for food
but desert dust falls through their fingers.
The tortured corpses lay in stinking piles.
Disease will putrefy the living.
Death stands ready for his harvest,
and God is angered.
Max Frost
1 Oct 2001
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