LarryA2J's Blog

The Kirkwood killings were a tragedy. Prayers are being lifted up all over the nation for the victims and the families. I sympathize with them.

 In a few days or weeks the real tragedy will begin, I’m referring to the lawsuits, “wrongful death” specifically. Is there really such a thing? No! As I said prayers are being lifted up all over the nation for the victims and their families. People are praying to God, the Lord Jesus Christ. God was not surprised by what has happened. Could He have stopped it? Yes. Did the gunman have a free will to shoot or not? Yes.

The Bible teaches that the life of every person was set before time began from the moment of birth, the instant your heart starts, to the moment of death, the instant your heart stops and you step into eternity. Man cannot change that span of life. Man cannot change how you die. Whether “natural causes” or as a “victim” death is the same.

God is in complete control of this and every situation where life ends. How can you pray to a God one minute and blame Him the next. Every living thing on earth will die. No one can escape death. Our simple purpose of earth, and the reason we were created, is to love and obey God and His commands.

What we perceive as tragedy God calls His perfect will for us. For the true Believer to spend an eternity in the presence of the living God is thousands of times better than the greatest pleasure on earth. 

 Just because we think someone died unexpectedly from “unnatural causes” has no bearing to God. Instead of blaming some person for this tragedy we should pray to God for peace and understanding of His will and why it happened.