Everyone is trying to make sense out of what happened today. Such evil exists in the heart of man and in this world. Only Jesus Christ can give us meaning in this life. He reveals the depth of man's lost condition by dying the death of the cross.
Tragedy presents unusual opportunities—for both good and ill. The
potential for good arises from the fact that people are awakened to
realities that they would otherwise ignore. C. S. Lewis famously made
this point in his observation that “God whispers to us in pleasures,
speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone
to rouse a deaf world.” This is profoundly true. Once the world is
awakened by tragedy and attention is drawn away from those trivialities
that blind people to God a pivotal opportunity emerges. But there is no
guarantee that it will automatically be redeemed. Someone must rise to
speak God’s truth into the pain and suffering.
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