Greetings Family
Why would a person blow themselves up to kill other people? The method one uses to kill another person is secondary to the reason people kill other people. The bible teaches us that Cain killed his brother Abel as they were talking in the field – Genesis 4:8. Abel did not do anything to Cain nor threaten or attack him. Yet, Cain rose up against his brother and ended his life.
What drove Cain to deprive his only brother of his life? Jealousy? Envy? Greed? Whatever the motivation, Cain believed removing his brother from the earth was the preferred method of resolving the object of his motivation. Thousands of years later after that first murder, people are repeating what Cain did nearly every time someone kills another person. Unless someone is being attacked and they kill their attacker as an act of self-defense, they are repeating what Cain did to Abel. There is therefore plenty of blood on a lot of hands.
Countless people have died who were just like Abel. Many, and perhaps most, caught in the crossfire like the recent 22. They were not threatening anyone nor attacking anyone, yet someone rose up against them just like Cain did and deprived them of their life regardless of motivation. The US is on pace to spend $600 billion dollars on defense next year. That is more than the next eight biggest national defense budgets in the world — combined! Yet, money designed to help relieve human suffering and improve human living conditions are threaten with cuts. What an immoral and unsustainable allocation of precious limited resources!
The world is on a collision course of destruction led by this continuous buildup in military spending around the world. At some point the dam is going to break and all this repressed hostility and destructive power is going to be unleashed onto all mankind with devastating results. If someone doesn’t take the moral high ground and begin to love and talk to their brothers, share their resources, looks for ways to resolve differences without killing, be humble enough to say “I’m sorry”, then the killing will only escalate to the point that hundreds, thousands, and even millions could die in future attacks instead of the tragic 22 last Monday.
Blessings
Pastor Jordan
