death...

As soon as the news broke, I called Cameron.  I lean on him a lot on things.  I saw people dancing in New York and cheering in front of the White House yelling "USA USA USA." 

However, I did not know how to react.  All Cameron said was "it's weird." 

No help there. 

So I took the day to think about it.  I usually do this after watching a movie and not knowing how i feel about it after I get out of the theater.  I usually tell people to give me a day.  So that is what I did in this instance, I took a day.

I can't help but feel a bit of relief.  There is not a doubt in me that the man deserved death after the thousands he has slaughtered.  I just don't know if I can CELEBRATE him being dead. 

It grieves my heart to see/hear others do so.  Especially my brothers and sisters in Christ.  Are we not supposed to be the one's who look past the sin and see them for being a lost soul? 

I actually read on facebook, people posting "enjoy hell" or "I wonder what Osama said before he was casted in to the lake of fire."  First, I am neither God nor is anyone else.  There is only one God and ONE God who will decided where we all spend eternity.  Jesus said in Matthew 7 that we should not to judge or we too will be judged, so how can we be 100% sure he is where we think he is?  We can't.  Nor shoud we care.  We have to worry about the living, not the dead. 

As bad a man as he was, he was a man.  He had a soul and he was loved by God, regardless.  No one can ever change that.  I know God hated the things that Osama did, but as Jesus said, "hate the sin, not the sinner."  I don't think we get to choose when to apply this scripture and when not too. 

I remember thinking the same thing after Timothy McVeigh was put to death.  I asked my mom if this was right, if we were meant to decide who should die and who should live.  I am not saying that i would not have done the same, my question is our reaction to the end result. 

Jesus had all the power to harm those, whoever he wanted.  Yet, he didn't.  In fact, during the abduction of Jesus, one of the soldiers gets his ear cut off.  You didn't see Jesus jumping around cheering that one of them was injured during the abduction.  Instead, he healed the man.

If something happened to my family or any children I might have someday, I can't say that I wouldn't seek death to the individual.  However, I know I won't react by cheering and celebrating if I do. Death doesn't undo death nor bring closure.  It just brings more death.

I close with this.  My prayers go out to those who lost loved ones through terrorism or as a result of the war.  To those who seek closure and direction after this matter, I pray for you. 

I pray for our country.  That we are guided to a new day to be an example to the rest of the world.  That God may guide us to peace, with all.