Make No Mistake It Was Racially Motivated.
Making Godly Sense Out Of Another Bad Thing That Has Happen
A white man arrived at the gates of Edward Waters University, a historically Black college in Jacksonville Florida. He was turned away by university security because he refused to identify himself.
Several blocks away was a Dollar General Store, the man put on a bulletproof vest picked up an AR-15 style rifle and a handgun and then proceed to shoot and kill three people all of them black.
We know it was racially motivated, because before the rampage the gunman set a text to his father leading him to three manifestos outlining what the Sherriff describes as the man’s “disgusting ideology of hate” and his motive for the attack.
CNN reports that the gun violence in Jacksonville marked one of several shooting incidents in the US over this weekend, including in Massachusetts and Oklahoma. Shots rang out across several cities, bringing a startling halt to normal summertime activities like high school football games and weekend shopping.
In Boston, at least seven people were injured Saturday morning in a shooting that interrupted a popular parade, police said. A high school football game in Choctaw, Oklahoma, took a deadly turn Friday night after a possible argument led to three people being shot, authorities say. One of them – a 16-year-old boy – died. And Four people, including a 17-year-old, were shot, and killed at an apartment in Joppatowne, Maryland, Saturday morning, officials said.
There have been at least 470 mass shootings in the United States so far in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting in which four or more people are injured and or killed, not including the shooter. The nation surpassed the 400 mark in July, – the earliest month such a high number has been recorded since 2013, the group said.
In Maui 115 people have been killed and nearly 400 are missing as the island recovers from the deadliest wildfire in America in more than a century. Search-and-rescue teams are still sifting through the last patches of ash and rubble looking for human remains, nearly two weeks after the fires devasted the coastal town of Lahaina.
Maui is paradise this scale of death and destruction is not supposed to happen here. The United States is a first world county, people should not be shot at a Dollar General because they are black. So, when these bad things happen the question must be asked why does God allow for bad things to happen?
In the Parable of The Wheat And The Weeds (Matthew 13:24-30) Jesus makes it clear that good, the wheat and bad the weeds will grow together until the harvest. From the beginning good and bad have existed together. In the Garden of Eden there was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 3) God in prohibiting Adam and Eve from eating the fruit, because he wanted to shield them from bad things. However, they eat the fruit and with it the knowledge of good and evil came to them and to us.
God has not forsaken us in this world of good things and bad things. The blessings of God’s goodness is constantly around us, the warmth of the sun, the sweetness of grandchildren, the enjoyment of a good meal. We are grateful for these and many other blessings. These blessings are valued more because of the bad things we have experienced, an illness, an accident, the death of a loved one.
For an entire night the disciples were in a bad storm as they crossed the Sea of Galilee. (Matthew 14:22-33) As the violent wind and waves were at their height, Jesus appeared walking on the water. Wanting to meet Jesus on the water Peter got out of the boat and for a time he walked on the w
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