Gospel Prism

I’ve been reading David McCullough’s Truman and McCullough quotes Stalin telling this to Churchill in a conversation. For someone like Stalin, it justified him killing so many without even a hint of remorse. Thousands of death didn’t really amount to much. But it also made me think of the recent killings at Virginia Tech. 32 people died and it was such a tragedy, and it was. But on that same day, over 100 people died in Baghdad and no one seemed to have noticed. Death around the world is only a statistic, but the murder of one person seems so visceral. It struck me as odd why this should be until I read this Stalin quote in Truman. We humans are forever limited by tunnel vision. We can only see what is right in front of us. Is it any wonder then why having wisdom is to see things through God’s perspective (read Proverbs to see this).

Oh how God must grieve over sin. And this is exactly why the only means by which sin could be overcome and reconciliation can be a reality is by the grace of God through the penal substitution of God’s own dear and precious sin. What a world this would be without that sacrifice. Even a scarier thought, what an eternity it would be for al without that sacrifice.