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The Spirit of our age:

(ladies watching this- you may want to stop it 20 seconds till the end as he is running into the ocean)

Relative Vengeance

(if you start this blog, please read all the way through. Then tell me if you agree or disagree or what questions you have– also you may want to follow the links to the video and the description of the event first so that you may fully understand what I am saying) 

“Things are friendly now. Everyone has had their blood,” said the chief of police after a brutal massacre following the violent murder of a 17 year old girl. Her crime was human emotion and frailty.

Today I watched a video that moved me to tears. It was a report on a girl named Du’a Khalil Aswad who was stoned to death on April 7th this year. Something rose up in me that cried out against such injustice and I had to stop the tape for a few minutes.

We live in such a fallen world. A part of me wanted to hurt the men who did such an ignoble thing to this young woman, that would be justice; however, to the men who did this, that was justice- the brutal murder of a ‘harlot’…. We are reflections of our Creator, desiring truth, justice, and vengeance. Jesus wouldn’t have taught to turn the other cheek had it not been relevant to all humanity. The natural reaction, when wronged unjustly, is to defend oneself, retaliate in kind, or retaliate with an increase in severity. We desparately need a Savior. On our own we can never truly know what justice is. Is it following the town rules to stone a whore? Is it murdering a group of men who killed that young woman? What is justice, and from what point can we view it? If all is relative, then there is no such thing as justice. Unless you are completely devoid of all human emotion, it is self-evident that this whole story involving Du’a Khalil Aswad is all wrong. Or, to be extreme, what makes killing a cooing baby, or killing someone because you want his money wrong? If everything is relative to the individual then nothing is just or unjust. It may be unjust to one and just to another.

Justice. Honor. Valor. Love. Hate. These words mean nothing in a world with no absolutes. Tell me, oh humanist, from what ruler do you measure morals, if morals are relative? A method of measurement can’t exist without measuring up to ultimate Truth. 

God is that ‘ruler’. He is the measure. And NO ONE measures up. God had no recourse for creating humanity other than love. What would a self-fulfilling being need in anything or anyone else? He, out of love, created us to experience love. God is love and apart from Him life is meaningless. Apart from Him justice has no meaning, pain and injustice rule.

This story was strikingly similar to one of my favorite stories that reveals the grace and love of my Beautiful Savior. The only Man who wouldn’t be unjust in condemning such a woman, showed her love. I would wager that, at heart, nearly every person could be called a harlot, or even worse. All God cares about, all the Father cares about is you, not what you’ve done, but you! It may, or may not be your fault that you’re screwed up; that doesn’t matter, but it is up to you to change that, everything in life is a choice. No one can force anything upon anyone. If you were convinced that mac and cheese was the greatest dish ever, and held a gun to my head trying to ‘force’ me to agree, I would still have a choice in the matter, either to agree or disagree. Where you are today is a result of the choices you have made to get there. You can turn a new leaf today! Today can be the start of something new, and the end of everything you regret.

“Things are friendly now. Everyone has had their blood,” said the chief of police after a brutal massacre following the violent murder of a 17 year old girl. Her crime was human emotion and frailty…
I’m sure that police chief didn’t realize the Truth behind his words. Humanity has had its blood. Blood must be spilt in order for vengeance to be satiated. Justice was satisfied two millenia ago, on a tree outside Jerusalem. This isn’t a fairy-tale your parents told you when you were young to make you rest easier at night, this is fact. The God of the Universe gave Himself to redeem mankind, to bring us back to Him. The Creator of all that is loves you. Saying that He loves you is an understatement, no word is great enough to describe His love. His love is more expansive than the night sky, and far deeper than the deepest ocean, brighter than the sun and purer that the driven snow. You have captured His heart like no one else can. See yourself as He sees you, run to Him.

Choose life.