KNOWING GOD AS A DELIVERER
Have you ever been in a situation in which you felt trapped? What did you do? Did you panic, worry, cry out for help…? I often imagine how people who die at the hand of attackers must feel when they were cornered without anyone to help them. My heart wrenches in pain when I hear of young people whose lives are stolen from them by brutal men. Think of the students at Virginia Tech who died at the hands of a nutcase. Imagine how 19-year-old Briana Dennison must have panicked when the-still-at large rapist opened the door of the home in which she was sleeping, snatched her off the couch, and carried her off into the blackness of night. Her body was found a little over a week ago. I followed the outcome of that story as if I knew Briana. While I have never met her, my heart was touched by the injustice she endured and I long to see justice brought to her killer. These stories are morose but they are real, and we live in a world in which human life has lost its sacredness. Many are callous to the pain of human suffering, but there are still people, people like you and me, whose hearts God has touched and who allow ourselves to feel for others.
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