Saturday, April 20, 2013

19

That's how old this guy is. He is my age. Personally, my heart and soul mourns for him. Maybe that's not American, but I couldn't care less. I am called to a higher nation, the nation of Christ. Yes, I love America, and I am amazingly blessed to be here. Yes, what he did was heinous, tragic, and wrong; yes, he should should be served justice by the law, but I pray with all my heart it's not the death sentence. I feel Jesus telling me every time my thoughts wander to this young man, that Jesus wants him. This guy is not too far from grace. He is not out of the reach of the redemptive power of God's love. Jesus died the same death for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as He died for me. I'm not trying to be disrespectful or discount the people he killed and injured, so please don't think that. I mourn for them and their families so much as well. I just see him as a fellow human being in desperate need of the love of Jesus, and it breaks my heart.