Thinking now
I’ve been reading news accounts and hearing comments
regarding this new Isis terrorist organization that seems to be conquering
large areas of Iraq and Syria. Not only are the Isis radical terrorists
conquering these areas of these countries, but also committing countless
atrocities such as crucifying people simply because they’re Christians,
beheading them simply because they’re Christians stoning Christian women, and
shooting people dead. What will it take for this murder spree to be ended?
Trying to Understand
More important question is what draws people, mostly men,
join the ranks of these inhuman barbarians and participate in this insane orgy
of mass murder and serial murder.
Looking back at my own Morbid Imaginations
I remember when I was a lost teenager, in a good school,
living in the home of a good family, with privileges, and yet I found myself
fantasizing the doing of murder of people whom I disliked, or whom I suspected
disliked me. I never murdered anyone, thank God! If I had done so, I don’t know
what I would have done with myself or how I would have been able to continue
living with myself. But I do have a lot to thank God for more than I’ll ever
know I owe him for.
Like a lot of young men going out, going to school, working,
and having sexual relations with countless women – I did some of that. Many
times the sex gratified me at least bodily. But my soul plundered for
something, for some ethereal or spiritual satisfaction that I could not put my
finger on to define and the need of mine. No, there were tensions, there was
angst, and there was a stirring deep inside me that left me hungry for
something that I did not know how to define as the need.
Redemption
I realized some time in my early 40s that I needed to make
my peace with God. I was sick and tired of my own sense. In essence, I was sick
and tired of being spiritually dead! As a result, I asked God to forgive me for
having contributed to the crucifixion murder of his son Jesus Christ.
He came on to me from within; that was glorious, the work of
the Holy Spirit himself beside me healing me, leaving me, draining me of all
sin from inside me, and in the end filling that empty hole, that vacuum that I
lived with, and sealing me for redemption – with his glorious self. Where
before I had only existed as a natural man, now I lived.
More information about Isis and the Motivations that Drive
those Men to Kill
Many men from many countries, including the United States,
United Kingdom, Australia, and others have joined this group, Isis. They go
about pillaging, murdering, doing evil in every single direction without the
least regard, without any respect at all for the lives of others, without the
least respect for human pain. They go about, indulging their most nihilistic
fleshly Drives. They profess doing this sick thing in the name of Allah, the
Muslim title of God. They do not do it to please God, they do it in order to sate
their hatreds of themselves, of humanity itself, of life itself.
Reaping the Fruits of their Hates
Consequently, the forfeit their own right, the God-given
right to life itself. And they will die! There may not die right now, they may
not die to three years and now, but they will die. And there will then be trial
for them. It is appointed for men to die, then judgment. It’s written in the
Bible. Yet these people have absolutely no fear of God. I would not want for
even a second to be in their shoes. I can imagine that at some point even those
who march alongside them might end up being their executioners, their killers.
You cannot play with life this manner with such reckless abandon and the
disrespect for life and expect that you will not be made to pay some sort of
penalty. Just can’t.
All I know is that I pray that God finally will put his hand
in this matter, invade this situation, and finally force all the sincerity to
end the hard way or the easy way. However, I also several biblical warnings
that Jesus Christ himself issued regarding the mistreatment of those who belong
to him. You reject the followers of Jesus Christ, you reject Jesus Christ. If
you reject Jesus Christ, then you rejected God the Father, He who sent Jesus
Christ here in the first place. I don’t know about you but if I thought for one
second that I may have rejected God, or Jesus Christ, then I would be quivering
with terror at the idea of having committed mortal sin and ending up in the
lake of fire for all eternity. The thought of that terrifies me to no end.
Introspection
What I have put into words here, constitutes my thoughts in
regard to this matter of the tendency of nihilistic people who are about
killing, taking lives of those who have done them nothing to deserve such
inhumanity. There are so many of us want to be able to understand what makes
such monsters take. But now thinking it better, I have come to understand that
is a better thing that I not be able to understand what makes monsters like
these tick.
Going Against my own Nature to Do the Right Thing as God Commanded,
not my Will Be Done but His Will be Done
I find myself, in summary, compelled to come to God and ask
him to give me the power to be able to pray for these killers that they might
find the urge to seek God lest they lose their souls forever. How hard it is
for me to pray for someone who does murder tortures mutilates other people
simply because of their spiritual convictions.
My natural inclination is to desire that these killers just
die. The mass of humanity will be much better off without them being alive –
that’s how I feel about them in the natural. But I myself am a murderer for I
sinned and Jesus Christ had to pay with his own death for me to be redeemed
from the curse of the law. Without him having laid down his life like that for
my sake, there would be no hope that God could even look on me. So who am I,
being redeemed former sinner, to now turn around and become judge, jury, and
executioner to other sinners.
I am no one to cast
the first stone upon anyone else. I’m obligated by God, to go against my own
nature, and pray for others, to pray for the lost. And these people are lost.
What more can I say regarding this matter? I cannot think of anything else to
say for now about this horrible evil being done. I had to get this off my
chest; just too heavy for me to carry inside and not ventilate it. Think what
you will me. I am certainly not a bleeding heart liberal.
