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I'm exhausted and need to go to bed, but I wanted to share this. Before I go any further let me just tell you, I am proud to be an American. I really am. I am proud for the ideals that this country represents. And I love America. So please, do not think this is any kind of anti-Obama, anti-American rant. :)
“Osama Bin Laden is dead,” John told me matter-of-factly. I had to make him repeat it again before I understood what he was saying. Even then I had a hard time processing what that meant. It had been a matter of minutes since the news, and he didn’t know how or why, he just knew Osama Bin Laden had been killed.
About 30 minutes later, Betsy and I were on a lovely walk around the Ferris Wheel ;) when I glanced through the D5 window and saw the TV on and the room packed. I dragged Bets with me and we were able to witness the last half of Obama’s address. After telling of how Bin Laden had been killed by a special opps team of U.S soldiers in Pakistan. As Obama concluded his speech with the well-known “one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all,” the room burst into applause and cheering. I joined in whole-heartedly.
However, no sooner had Betsy and I walked out the door and resumed our walk, than I suddenly was gripped with sadness. I confessed this to Betsy.
I understand that Bin Laden was a terrible man. I know that he was responsible for the death of millions of innocent people. However, it’s hard to really understand it all. In a time when numbers like that are just statistics that roll off you, it’s hard to resist becoming desensitized. In one sense I am glad that justice has been granted, and that evil has been stopped in the death of Bin Laden. At the same time, I feel grief for his death, in the way that I feel grief for any unbeliever’s death. If he thought he had it bad on earth, I can’t even begin to imagine-indeed I shudder-to think of the torment that he faces now and forever. Now some people write this off and say he deserved it, and while he did I know that I deserve it just as much. But by the grace of God I have been freed from sin’s grip. I mourn for those who are not.
At first I was concerned that this meant that I had something terribly wrong with me, :P but after being able to pray with Betsy for Pakistan and for those who had been directly hurt by Bin Laden, I was comforted in knowing that God is-as always-so completely in control.
As we had scrambled out of the room Alan called out, “Psalm 37 guys. Don’t fret. Psalm 37.”
“Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and whither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.”- Psalm 37:1-4
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