What Jerry Sandusky did was a horror. If that was my boy who came home with wet hair,
and had been brutalized in that way, I am not confident that I would be
able to restrain myself from calmly killing Sandusky in the middle of
the night. Slowly. I am not trying to be funny. If that were my son--God
help him.
Now--brothers and sisters--that horror we feel is right. The thirst for personally executed revenge is not right. But the revulsion, and thirst for justice, is right. We would be wrong not to feel it.
But
the horror we feel over this is not only appropriate, it is also a
glimpse into the horror of our own sin. I am not leveling out all sins.
Some are worse than others. But the revulsion, the rage, that we rightly
feel toward that sick man is a picture of the repulsiveness of our own
sick rebellion against an infinitely beautiful One, and the rage he
would be right to direct toward us.
That desire for an hour, just
one hour, with Sandusky in a sealed off room with nowhere for him to
run, and the rage that I would like to pour out on him, is a glimmer of
the rage that ought to be poured out on me by my Creator. And was poured
out on his Son.
I am more like Sandusky than different from him.
God help me.
He did.
Dane Ortlund
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