"A man plotting revenge against his ex-wife dressed up like Santa, went to his former in-laws' Christmas Eve party, shot at partygoers and destroyed his former in-laws' house with a homemade device that sprayed flammable liquid, slaughtering at least nine people before killing himself hours later. Bruce Pardo, 45, saw his marriage fall apart this year when his wife discovered he had abandoned a brain-damaged son years earlier but continued to claim the boy as a tax write-off, the L.A. Times reported."So how do we process this insanity - and it's insanity on so many levels.
Do we blame God for not being there to prevent these wrongs?
Do we thank God that the man finally took himself out of our world?
Do we call on the sovereignty of God as ordaining these tragedies for His glory from before time began?
Do we just throw our hands up in the air and wonder, "what's this world coming to?" [Though we know it's coming to no good.]
Or ...
Do we actually look at ourselves as part of a broken sinful world where broken sinful people do terrible things to one another because we who are the Body of the Christ are NOT acting at all like the Christ?
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