TURNING TO GOD IN TRAGEDY

The Virginia Tech massacre is so very tragic. I pray that the Lord uses the event to bring men and women to repentance of sin and saving faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the greatest good that can come from it.

In Galatians 6:7 our Holy Creator God warns us, “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” We have not headed the warning and are reaping what we are sowing as a nation. Our collective response to this tragedy gives me confidence that we will reap more of the same.

The Virginia Tech convocation had a variety of speakers including the President, the Gov. of Virginia, the college president, a Muslim cleric, a Buddhist, a Jewish woman, a broad minded Lutheran pastor, and the whole thing closed with an outspoken lesbian activist comparing the horror of 32 murdered college students to the plight of a baby African elephant having its community wiped out for their ivory tusks. We don't just invite the wrath of God, we demand it!

Allah was referenced by name. Buddha was referenced by name. The name of Jesus was left unmentioned. That name is considered obscene when uttered with reverence and faith in the public venue and on college campuses. Unless the name of Jesus Christ is being used as an obscenity it is an unmentionable.

The Governor waxed eloquent mentioning the book of Job as a holy text to Muslims, Jews, and Christianity (notice the order). President Bush mentioned a vague “God of love,” his prayers were for the living and the dead, and he spoke of many prayers being offered up by many faiths. The first spiritual leader to speak was the Muslim cleric. The last was the Lutheran pastor who, among other ecumenical blunderings, said something to the effect that this terrible event was too difficult for any one faith to address alone.

There is one true God. He will not be mocked. We have sown and reaped. We are sowing and will reap. We have rejected his commandments. We have taken “Thou shalt not murder” out of the school building and we have brought murder into it with Planned Parenthood’s abortion counseling and services. We call the murder of forty-eight million innocent unborn children, “reproductive rights,” and compare the violent murder of thirty-two college students to the illegal killing of elephants. The last speaker of the convocation was the lesbian, distinguished professor, Nikki Giovanni. She stood and rallied the crowd to hoops and hollers with false bravado and an empty camaraderie built on school spirit and the common plight of suffering elephants.