Some thoughts on the slaughter of the Amish children

I don't have a bunch of answers... alot of questions, some of my own thoughts, but not a bunch of answers.

I couldn't sleep the other night, and I was up thinking. The question crossed my mind, What would possess someone to do something like this? And immediately I thought, "Hmm... possess...," and I remembered reading a sermon with some interesting points. I grabbed my book of Christopher Love sermons off the shelf and started paging... ah yes, there it is, Sermon 15 on The Combat Between the Flesh and the Spirit:

"1. Motions to sin from Satan are usually such as are abhorrent to nature's light of unnatural sins, those which the very light of nature struggles. And therefore divines rank temptations to blasphemy against God and to lay violent hands upon a man's self to be from Satan because they are unnatural. These motions do not arise primarily from the flesh but from the devil because they are contrary to nature, and therefore not from nature....

"2. Motions from the devil are usually to gross acts of sin which are not seated in the inclination and affections....

"3. Temptations from Satan are usually accompanied with with much horror and fear when they are first suggested. When a temptation is so strongly suggested that it makes a man quake, and horror comes upon him, this is an argument that it comes from the devil. And the reason is because nature provokes to those sins which are most pleasing unto nature. Nature does not raise a combustion in the mind."

This slaughter of the children was diabolical...demonic... I think so, anyway. Like I said, I don't have a bunch of answers, just some thoughts.

Some other thoughts... Monday morning a man entered a school room with the intent to rape and murder a school room full of little girls... and Monday night America enjoyed a nationally televised football game. The Eagles crushed the Packers.

How can anyone play a game, cheer about a game, care about a game, when something like this happened? It's the American way, it seems, to ignore tragedy and just go on like nothing happened. It's been going on for a while now. When is America going to take a moment to consider why our nation is given over to violence and perversion? And what is the Lord's quarrel with us? Like I said, not alot of answers, just a bunch of questions.

Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. -- Jeremiah 31:15.