Current Events

Sometimes I watch the news and I am amazed at what we as humans are capable of doing. I RARELY watch the news for this very reason. After the Virginia Tech massacre I was terrified to go back to campus. After that I pretty much decided that the world could be filled with evil, but I didn't have to be bombarded with it every night from my television. Call that silly or whatever you need to call it, but I find my life is much better not knowing every single awful thing that is happening. That's not to say that I live in a bubble. I see the news online and occasionally read an article. I just chose not to let it control my life.

The last few days there have been some news stories that could not be missed:

An Army Major going and killing 13 people on an American base. The base was where these people lived and worked serving their country and they were killed by one of their own. Many of those who were killed had served in war and made it home only to be killed on their own soil. Disgusting.

A disgruntled employee goes into his old place of business and shoots people. He killed at least 2 and several others were wounded. Do you think those people went to work today thinking that they were going to be in the line of fire? I highly doubt that.

I think back to 9/11 when a bunch of people came up with a plane to kill a ton of people and succeeded. It blows my mind how one could get that many people to agree to such an evil plan.

Anyway, I often think about how disappointed I am in people. Is it so hard to control yourself? Is it really that hard to let people who did you wrong move on with their lives? I know that we all wish we could "deal" with certain people, but we do not do it because that is wrong. When did it become so hard for people to do the right thing?

I also know that for how much I am disappointed in people, God must really shake his head with tears running down His face. I simply cannot imagine the way he feels when one of His creatures does something so unimaginable. I, as a Christian, often struggle with degrees of sin. I think that being an American, I am so used to the legal system with degrees of crimes that I often place those degrees on sin. At the end of the day, however, I really do think that a sin is a sin now matter what. I am certain that things I do every single day let God down and for that I'm sorry. I think the moral of this is to focus on ourselves and what we can do to further God's kingdom. People will always let you down. Always. God will not so let's focus on him instead of all of the evil in the world.