As a mom to a little man that will be attending Kindergarten next year, last weeks school shooting took a special place in my heart. I have felt moved to pray for the moms of the children that were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newport Connecticut.
This evening as we read our advent devotional it touched on something similar back in the first few years after Jesus was born.
"When Herod realized that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was furious and gave orders to kill all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, in accordance with the time he had learned from the Magi. Then what was said through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more." Matthew 2:16-18
In Jesus' time, in the town of Bethlehem, all the boys 2 years old and younger were killed. I cannot even fathom this kind of atrocity. "Why hollow-souled tyrants (or young men) must kill innocents to satisfy their need for power, wealth or influence will always remain a fathomless mystery to most of us. Yet somehow God can turn even the greatest of human rights offenses for His good" writes Dan Belt in our Hope Arriving Advent Devotional.
We cannot understand, and at this time, we cannot fathom how God can use something like the shooting last week for good, but I do know that "...in all things, God works for the good of those who love Him..." Romans 8:28.
Join me in praying for the families affected in the atrocity last week.
In His Grace...
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