Last night, at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, 14 people (all suspected to be young kids and teenagers) were killed, and many more were injured. The youngest of those killed in the massacre was supposedly a 3 month old baby, shot at point blank range.
This is one of those situations where a lot of people will ask, "So where is God in all of this," or, "How can God make this right?"
I think this tragedy happened because God was not there. The world so desperately needs Jesus, and this is just one of many sickening incidents that display this need for redemption.
So, how can God make this right?
How are the parents of the kids who died in that theater supposed to believe that God will make everything right?
I'm not going to tell them that, "God works in mysterious ways," at a time like this. It's true, but what the families need to know right now is that God isn't done.
He is still working in this world and He will make everything better. It won't be on our time, but His kingdom will come and all the hurt and pain in the world will be gone.
The hardest part of this situation is that I still love whoever shot all those people. They, just like me, are still children of God and deserve to be loved as such.
I'm still fighting myself because how could someone who could do something so terrible deserve to be loved?
And then I remember that I sin every day. Every hour. And that my sins against God are just as bad.
We cannot call ourselves followers of Christ unless we love everyone. Murderers included.
My heart goes out to the friends and family of everyone involved in this tragedy.
