Mass murders

It was a different time with vastly different ways of looking at things. In the late 1930s a radio program premiered called “The Shadow”. The tag question for the series was, "who knows what evil lurks in the heart of man"?  Our understanding of life these days is convoluted.  The question of evil is rarely a topic of conversation. Yet evil has so many manifestations all around us: violence, hatred, racism, abuse and the list goes on.

Three significant mass shootings happened in the past few days (crowding off the pages the relatively minor shooting in Southaven, Mississippi). The responses to how to handle such manifestations of evil are fully in play in the media and on social media.

What will probably not make those reports is the only true solution: heart change. The powerful intervention by the Creator of the human heart, whose self-sacrificial death has made available the power of God for heart change, is the only hope for the evil that confronts us.  The love of Christ constrains us and we possess a power that is able to love every victim of every race from every country and to love those whose brokenness pulled the trigger.  The only power sufficient to deal with the horror that is being revealed is not found in a ballot box or legislative action: it is via the activity of a life changing and living Christ who works through his disciples.