Tuesday, April 30, 2013

God can do this, tonight, before the dawn of a new day!

Josimar Salum

After Sister Sharon Bergman Bisceglia have prayed with me over the phone when I was in Watertown, Massachusetts to pray for the whole situation involving the attack on the Boston Marathon, I was in that city where the two brothers, fugitives, had taken refuge and were found, we asked the Lord that the youngest would be captured alive today as the eldest had died earlier today while it was still dark in a firefight with the Police.



Today evening we learned that Dzhokhar had been captured as we have prayed, alive, although badly wounded.

I then had this thought too strong in my mind to visit him in prison to share with him the love of the true God.

I even wondered how this could happen.

So I figured that if he rejected the first time, our God could melt his heart, drawn him to the cross of Jesus and then we would read the news in a newspaper as "he is now following Jesus."

I believe that all things are possible with God.

But I confess that when last Monday afternoon I saw those scenes on the news of the attack that invaded our TVs, iPhone and PCs, I got very angry, I felt very angry.


I hate all evil, and just to think that just an hour away from my house those three people, two adults and one child had died and many others had been terribly injured, lost limbs and were torn apart by the fury of those two bombs... I could not contain myself. And also earlier today, while it was still dark, a 26 year old Policeman had been shot to death by the older fugitive.
But God shone His Grace also in my heart tonight and I could think of visiting this young man that is so hurt right now. He can die at any time without knowing the true Love!


Only the abundant Grace of God in the hearts of the wounded and their families, and the families who lost their loved ones, can spell out, even through the pain, the surprising good news of Jesus: Forgiveness. By Him and with Him because of what He has done we can forgive like He did, at the Cross.


Forgive unconditionally is the only decision that anyone can make, by the Power of Love, to heal all hearts, even a whole nation and every broken heart and their internal and external wounds.

God can do this, tonight, before the dawn of a new day! 

Note
Although we pray and wish that the young terrorist who attacked the Boston Marathon is saved and transformed by the grace of Jesusthat does not mean he will not have to face all the earthly consequences of his evil acts before Justice.

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