The most
famous verse in the Bible declares that “For God so loved the world, that he gave…”
God loves the world, the whole world.
Father
brought that one back to me recently, as I was praying for his Spirit to move
among the ISIS terrorists. “Son,” he said, “Christians
are all worked up because the terrorists are killing Christians.”
I listened.
“I love the Christians. But I love the terrorists just as much.”
That
startled me a bit. And it brought back to my mind a conversation we’d had years
ago about martyrs. “Do I not have the right to spend the lives of my servants
in the way that I know is best?” I could hear tears in his voice as he said it.
And I
realized something. While it’s an ugly thing that terrorists are killing
Christians, while it’s a heinous act to crucify or behead women or children for
any reason, there’s a reality behind it that is yet even worse.
When the
Christians are brutally murdered, they go to run and jump and shout and play
with Jesus. They go to a place full of light and love and wholeness and
acceptance. The route there was evil, but the destination is glorious.
But for the
terrorists, when they brutally murder a Christian, the demons that control him
wrap their claws tighter around his soul. And when someone blows up a terrorist
camp with a cruise missile, it is not to glory that the dead are destined, and
it is most definitely not a flock of eager virgins that they will meet when
they arrive.
Here’s what
I learned today. I already knew that Father wept over his children’s murders,
but I was reminded that their blood would, as it always has, be the seed of yet
more revival on the earth. Every time a Christian’s blood is spilled, the grace
of God is unleashed to bring even more people into the Kingdom.
Their
murderers think they are doing evil, but they are sending individuals to glory
and empowering revival upon the earth!
But I
learned that my Father weeps more over the murderers than over the murdered. Because
these do not know hope, because of what their sin does to their soul and how it
enslaves them all the more, because when they are killed, their destiny is far away
from Him who died that they could know Him. Father grieves because the terribly
costly sacrifice of his Son has not yielded in them the benefit for which he
paid that terrible price.
Father
weeps more over the terrorists than the Christians they murder.
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