At times like these, I am at
a lost for words. The recent shootings in Newtown CT, has touched so many
people in so many ways, and most of us just don’t know how to react. We want to
know why, we want to ask the questions, how could this happen again? We want to
have someone, something to blame. All in all we want to make sense of it. But
more than making sense of it all, we need to allow our hearts and prayers to go
out to those who have lost loved ones. It is not the time to make sense of it,
because it makes no sense. We live in a world that wants to understand, but
there are times we can’t. We may never know why, or how someone gets to this
point. We may never know the motives of a heart that can do such a thing. But
we can know how to love those who need our love, and more importantly how to
pray for those who need our prayers. Making sense of it all won’t change
anything. But praying may change a heart, and a nation.
2 Chronicles 7:14
if my people,
who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my
face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will
forgive their sin and will heal their land.
I’m not saying this event was
cause by our wicked ways, I’m just saying that God’s people at times like these
need to pray. Right now we don’t need to make sense of all of this, we need God
to change the hearts of those who would ever consider such a thing. And we need
God to heal the hearts of those who have suffered lost.
