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Today is one of the worst days in American history. Somehow one person has managed to eclipse the horrors of the Columbine shootings that turn 8 years old on Friday. This morning, a lone gunman shot several people, killing two, at around 7:15 am. Within two hours of the 911 call and the police investigating these shootings, the engineering building reported a gunman attacking students there. By the end of the attack, 32 students and teachers are dead and the gunman took his own life. For more information, go to foxnews.com or cnn.com or your local news station. For an time line released to Foxnews.com by V-Tech, click here.

DesiringGod ministries has posted a wonderful post in which they offer 21 ways to minister to the families of this massacre.

Many people will ask Christians, “Why did a ‘loving’ God do this? How could a loving God allow this to happen?” The link above gives answers to this question. But there is a text in Luke 13:1-5 in which Jesus was asked the same thing. His answer is not the “loving” answer that we might expect him to give. He tells us that what should amaze us is not that all of those people in the tower of Siloam and Galileans died in a horrible fashion. Jesus says that we should be amazed that we who are just as guilty of sin as they who died did not perish. The point being that the grace of God was given to us who were not the victims of the massacre in that we were kept from the attack.

Let us hold on to that grace and remember that grace. Let us respond to that grace with repentance for we deserve death as we are all sinners, we have all rejected the glory God in our lives. That is what Jesus never wants us to forget. We get so caught up in the horror of the tragedy that we miss a vital opportunity to see the truth: we should have perished too. Let us share the grace of God that preserved us with those around us when asked about this tragic, sinful massacre. Let us use this opportunity to preach the gospel.

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