Just this morning a simple, almost natural headline read, "mother stabs 3 daughters to death."
As I read through the article, I was memorized by the acceptance and justification of such an act. The world is immune to terror. Fear, depression, insanity, outrage, and murder have become commonplace.
Why?
The world no longer feels or experiences the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Their hearts have become as stone.
Why?
Their lives have been void of love.
Love is the fertile soil that nurtures a normal human being. Without love there cannot be normalcy of emotion and expression.
Our hearts are gardens and must be tended regularly by the one who created it.
Bitter roots, judgements, vows, seeds of unforgiveness all need to be weeded out. Without such care, the garden can no longer produce fruits of love, joy, peace, forgiveness or simple acts of kindness.
While we were mere children, we were given natural mothers and fathers to tend our hearts' gardens but the wounds of the parents hindered the love the children deserved. Rather than sowing seeds of love and forgiveness, most have sown their own seeds of hatred, self-righteousness, bigotry, unforgiveness and bitterness right into the innocent youngsters' hearts. The parents are completely unaware of this transfer. It's an evil cycle.
But it's not to late for this cycle of destruction to be broken.
The solution is LOVE, Agape LOVE.
As Christians, this is our only calling. We also know that our natural love will not suffice, we must love with the supernatural, unconditional love of the Father.
Our job is not to convict, convince or judge.
Our ONLY responsibility is to LOVE.
“I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunesso that it will be even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in you." John 15:1-4
It is hard to love the mother who so ruthlessly stabbed her 3 innocent daughters. It is nearly impossible to love the man who has raped and murdered countless young women. It is beyond natural ability to love the man who has stolen the innocence of young children and exposed them to others through pictures and videos.
Yet, if we want to see an end to it all, the only answer is LOVE.
We love because Christ first loved us.
We are in Christ and He is in us. We are intertwined in His vine. We cannot be separated from His love.
We were not designed to hoarde his Love. We were designed to release it to the dying, hurting world around us.
Christ died so that ALL should live.
When Christ gave Himself up for the world, He took ALL the judgement that day. He took it so that the world could experience freedom from darkness and unconditional love without condemnation or judgment.
Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine. Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world (satan) will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
John 12:30-33
The only way the world can experience Christ is through us!
This is the year for Victory over Death.
This is the year for God's manifested Love to be revealed on this earth through us, His earthen vessels.
The greater we love, the greater victory we will win.
Let's join together to put an end to this madness.
Make a commitment that if left up to you, "none will taste death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." Matthew 16:28
So that His Kingdom may come on this earth the same as it is in Heaven!!
