God Wins

The righteous perish, and no one takes it to heart; the devout are taken away, and no one understands that the righteous are taken away to be spared from evil.

Isaiah 57:1

To act in a violent manner is indirectly accusing God of being unjust. 

As I sit here currently as a Christian, seeing the death of one of God’s strongest soldiers, all I could ask myself was “When do we get to take action? Why is it always us being persecuted? WE are the ones that preach peace and be spat on and murdered? When do we get to enact justice?” 

I didn’t think of it personally, presently, politically; I thought about the future, and if I would rather see peace or violence. Do I want to see nothing happen like always, or do I want to see a big domino fall or a big drop of water into the boiling pot. I contemplated vigorously about this, knowing what I know, that America is a boardgame. Would Jesus fight for Christian values or parabolize peace through strength? 

I honestly had no clue and didn’t know of which of the two circumstances I wanted to see play out in the future.

I saw the right blame the left, I saw the left celebrate the death of the moderate right. I didn’t look at it politically; I looked at it humanly. A fellow Christian taken away by who knows what. Even if evidence comes out it’s usually bullcrap anyway. You can’t believe anything these days. 

But the one thing you can believe is that God is just.

Why did God take away this man? Why was he ridiculed so much? What mistakes did he make that led him down a path of controversy and clownsmanship? I made fun of him, laughed at his weird face, ugly smile, scoffed at his obliviousness of foreign affairs. One thing he had that I do not is boldness. I am a coward who cares about what other people think which strikes down my ambition and destroys my secureness and confidence. 

He didn’t care.

I do.

At that moment after my very successful job interview, I got the link to the video of his death. In that moment I realized that I had been the most judgemental Christian on earth. I picked apart every little thing he said, and made an assumption that he was bad, based on the little. I never saw his bigger message of faith above all. I’ve had time to self-reflect on what I can make of the situation, and how I can become a better Christian and human. 

I pray every night to be able to see the good in the bad.

With that being said, earthly affairs will not allow for me to be judgemental anymore. I’ve preached and written about unity, but I had a heart full of hate. Even though I think I am better at unity than most, I am just as imperfect as the next person no matter how hard I try. I pray for peace, I do not want violence. 

Violence in this moment creates more violence, and disables human rights. If America was just up and reset via violence and tyranny, then it would be worse off than it was before. That is where we look to God’s perfect justice. If we believe in God, then we believe that prayer supersedes all natural, and justice will come for all. It’s not about right and left, it never was; it’s about good and evil. 

We are the kingdom of God, Jesus, and the spirit.

If we believe in God, we believe in the rapture and the trumpets of Revelations. He was spared by God’s justice, a righteous man spared by the evil to come. That is what we should all strive for. Death can arrive at any moment, he didn’t think he would die that day but he did. As I sit and scroll all day on Twitter for answers, I realized that I do not need answers and that I will never understand God’s plan. In the end I realized that:

God wins.