Everywhere you look on the media, there's another story about the VT massacre. To tell you the truth, most of it I don't know how to deal with. I know that we must have a problem when one person at a top-notch university goes through a classroom building with a weapon firing shots at innocent people. If we really call it what it is, it's sin. There are tales that this was another lonely student acting out from his depression, but it can't be that simple. What drives a person to this type of carnage? There is part of me that wants to hide and say, "NO, not again!" And there is this other part that wants to drive up to Blacksburg to comfort students and let them grieve and know that there is a God that loves them and has a solution to this sin problem they witnessed Monday morning, if they will only accept the death that Jesus died for them on the cross. The amazing part of this message of the cross is that when you say, "Jesus thanks for taking my place in death," he does it. This crisis of death is one that we're all going to deal with. Now or later. Sin demands a payment and that payment is death. What Jesus came for is to pay the sin payment, in order that we might live now and into eternity. So, while you think about the carnage at VT, consider the gift of life that Jesus offers you now.
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