Matt Kennedy@lambeth981
It seems to me that the children were murdered because they were Christian children praying in a church. That makes them holy martyrs. The man who murdered them hated Jesus, his children, and his church and wanted to show that God could not save them and that their prayers were futile, a sentiment the mayor of Minnesota has repeated. These are, of course, the sentiments of hell and demons love to mouth them through the lips of willing souls. Jesus heard the same species of mockery as he hung on his cross, “If you are the Son of God come down from the cross. Save yourself.” But demons and those in league with them cannot understand the wisdom of the cross or the fellowship of suffering that Christians share with our Lord. We are, as Paul says, given over to death every day. But by his blood and death and resurrection, Jesus has turned death for us into the threshold of life and joy and the everlasting feast. These children have been ushered into the presence of the Great Shepherd of the sheep. Not one of them has been lost. They are with him today in Paradise where sorrow and pain are no more and they will be raised on the last day as heirs of the whole world. This is because of the prayers and work of their great High Priest to whom they spoke their last words on this earth. Meanwhile, their murderer is facing the everlasting judgment of the One he mocked and whose children he killed. And He, the Judge, is the One who tells us that we must pray for those who mock our prayers so that through them he might have mercy on his enemies and rescue them from their blindness and cruelty and deliver them from the lies of hell and forgive their sins and iniquities. Because his property is always to have mercy. So, may the Lord turn their hearts and convict them and bring them to repentance and pour out his mercy on them.
