| Suffer The Children © Betty Sue Eaton |
Lacey Peterson, Dru Sjadine, Carlie Bruscia. These are names of beautiful children
of God whose lives have been cut short in their prime recently by the hand of evil
men. There is no reason for their breath to have been stilled, their bodies brutalized
in the manner which they were. The Bible tells us in Matthew 6:34 that "the evil of
the day is sufficient thereof", but still will flourish in the sick hearts of men. Once
again, we have witnessed, by television's graphic pictures the perversion of these
wicked and stone cold evildoers as eleven year old Carlie Bruscia was dragged off
to her untimely death.
Having lost not one, but two of my own children, one to a terrible auto-pedestrian
accident, and another to a heartless and unfeeling disease, I cannot imagine the
shock and unfathomable grief in the hearts of Carlie's parents, her family, her
church, school and community. This was a beautiful child whose future was indeed
bright and full of promise, as were Lacey Peterson's and her unborn son, Connor,
and Dru Sjadine's as well. Nothing is as profoundly shattering as that a parent loses
a child in an early death by the hand of a monster like those who have taken these
precious lives.
But even as we cry in rage at the unbelievable horror of these deaths, we must also
remember that our instructions from God is to withhold our own judgment from those
who have committed these unspeakable acts. He will tell us over and over in the
Scriptures that judgment is His alone and He will exact punishment of those who
have ignored and flaunted His words.
He tells is that in our imperfect world there will be wars, famine, pestilence,
disasters, tragedies and all manner of indescribable troubles for those who do not
follow His teachings. God rules the entire Universe with an iron hand of
unchangeability, yet to us mere mortals, changes occur every day and we lament
them because they have interrupted our way of life. We wish for constancy in our
everyday, and bemoan the unexpected.
We must also remember God's teachings that He alone knows the number of our
days, even as He also knows the number of hairs on our very heads. And ultimately,
He alone is directing the good that is present, but that Satan and his angels are
directing that which is not of God's making. When Lucifer was banished as the chief
among angels in the eternal struggle to overtake God's power in the universe and
eternity, he vowed to fight forever to gain control of all mankind. In certain instances,
we can clearly witness Satan's evildoing, as in the cases of these three beautiful
people whose lives have been taken for nothing more than a sick heart full of evil
desire.
My column today is to honor Lacey, Dru, and Carlie and pray for their heartbroken
families. I pray for their healing and for God's arm around them all the days and
nights of their pain. Whether or not the courts of this great land find a just
punishment for those who have committed these murders, God in His word will have
the ultimate punishment for them. We must not allow our hearts to become cold and
hardened against God for these unspeakable acts, but rather pray for the
redemption of all who have turned away from His word for their own salvation's sake.
of God whose lives have been cut short in their prime recently by the hand of evil
men. There is no reason for their breath to have been stilled, their bodies brutalized
in the manner which they were. The Bible tells us in Matthew 6:34 that "the evil of
the day is sufficient thereof", but still will flourish in the sick hearts of men. Once
again, we have witnessed, by television's graphic pictures the perversion of these
wicked and stone cold evildoers as eleven year old Carlie Bruscia was dragged off
to her untimely death.
Having lost not one, but two of my own children, one to a terrible auto-pedestrian
accident, and another to a heartless and unfeeling disease, I cannot imagine the
shock and unfathomable grief in the hearts of Carlie's parents, her family, her
church, school and community. This was a beautiful child whose future was indeed
bright and full of promise, as were Lacey Peterson's and her unborn son, Connor,
and Dru Sjadine's as well. Nothing is as profoundly shattering as that a parent loses
a child in an early death by the hand of a monster like those who have taken these
precious lives.
But even as we cry in rage at the unbelievable horror of these deaths, we must also
remember that our instructions from God is to withhold our own judgment from those
who have committed these unspeakable acts. He will tell us over and over in the
Scriptures that judgment is His alone and He will exact punishment of those who
have ignored and flaunted His words.
He tells is that in our imperfect world there will be wars, famine, pestilence,
disasters, tragedies and all manner of indescribable troubles for those who do not
follow His teachings. God rules the entire Universe with an iron hand of
unchangeability, yet to us mere mortals, changes occur every day and we lament
them because they have interrupted our way of life. We wish for constancy in our
everyday, and bemoan the unexpected.
We must also remember God's teachings that He alone knows the number of our
days, even as He also knows the number of hairs on our very heads. And ultimately,
He alone is directing the good that is present, but that Satan and his angels are
directing that which is not of God's making. When Lucifer was banished as the chief
among angels in the eternal struggle to overtake God's power in the universe and
eternity, he vowed to fight forever to gain control of all mankind. In certain instances,
we can clearly witness Satan's evildoing, as in the cases of these three beautiful
people whose lives have been taken for nothing more than a sick heart full of evil
desire.
My column today is to honor Lacey, Dru, and Carlie and pray for their heartbroken
families. I pray for their healing and for God's arm around them all the days and
nights of their pain. Whether or not the courts of this great land find a just
punishment for those who have committed these murders, God in His word will have
the ultimate punishment for them. We must not allow our hearts to become cold and
hardened against God for these unspeakable acts, but rather pray for the
redemption of all who have turned away from His word for their own salvation's sake.
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