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Weeping and Great Mourning
With the horrific events of the school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday morning, there was "weeping and great mourning" that has been going on, and that will continue to go on for the next several days and weeks. It is hard to imagine the hatred, anger, malice, animosity in the heart of a young man that would killed his mother and then vent that aggression at the school on the staff and the 20 young victims in his rampage and anger. This is the second shooting to take place this past week, the other took place at a mall out in Oregon. Times have not changed though through the centuries, I am reminded of another rampage that took place in a small town called Bethlehem, back in the first century. "Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men. Then was fulfilled that which was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet, saying, A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not." Matt.2:16-18. There was "Weeping and great mourning" after Herod ordered the massacre of all the young baby boys 2 years and younger. People can be so cruel, so heartless, as Herod was back then, even so we see the same in our time. In the first century, folks "would not be comforted, because they are not." I know parents, and grandparents will suffer so much grief and tears that cannot be stopped. My heart hurts for these folks. It is in events like these we see the exceeding sinfulness of sin. May people look to the Lord, who also suffered greatly when his Son died at the hands of cruel, vicious murderers.
