When ‘the voices’ were dispatched, I wonder if anyone told him they were his spiritual enemy. A war time soldier, he clearly understood combat, but did he?
Do most of us?
Before you count me out as one of ‘the devil made me do-it’ myopics, let me remind you that as a minister of liberty, a Christian, I know our weapons are not carnal, but spiritual in nature. Ephesians 6:12 tells us exactly with whom it is we war and how to dress for that battle.
I’m perplexed.
He took the lives of five humans with families and hopes. They had no idea they would be extinguished by the work of evil through a man who made agreements with an ideology rooted in oppression and death.
The Spirit of God in me is reminded of what my faith’s Savior knew as he was being strung up by nails, naked, bloodied, mocked, bruised and stabbed, for all of mankind, when he uttered: “forgive them father, for they know not what they do”. What?! My eyes tell me they knew EXACTLY what they were doing. But did they?
Do we?
It would be easy for me to say Islam is the devil’s claw and leave it at that and move on in anticipation of the next manifestation of evil which will surely come, but…
I’m stuck.
I know we can’t all get along. I’m a proponent of our military, guns, laws and order. I’m okay with America being first, because she’s my home and liberty is supposed to be her banner under where all can find shelter. All who can abide by liberty’s principles.
I’m an American. And I’m grateful. I’m a patriot and any citizen of any country governed by liberty should be too. But terror is a new form of globalist tactic to corral us into one unifying ring of fear and false safety by which we think man and negotiating can save us.
But he can’t. And it won’t.
Our weapons are not carnal remember? That’s not a throw the military out with the bible statement. On the absolute contrary, it’s a call to order. I pray for my enemies daily, like David: They are turned back or destroyed. Simple.
I’m not a psychologist and I won’t dismiss the murder of five lives as simply mental illness, nor will I discount the very real existence of chemical imbalances of the brain that when triggered, can lead to ghastly manifestations.
I want to respond to the molestation of our national psyche as someone who has been seated across from every color, nationality and faith as a minister, humbled by one reality: none of us are above evil. Not one.
Our sins-de-jeur and measuring sticks vary for sure, but God’s doesn’t.
The best I have to offer as a minister and someone who has seen mental illness and spiritual bewitchment up close and personal is, I’m deeply sorry for all.
I grieve with you.
I’m sorry that someone who once defended liberty was hijacked by evil long enough to snuff out the liberty of five other humans.
I’m sad for those five human beings who have friends and loved ones who are now left with a hole in their hearts and possibly scarred for life.
I hope
That our nation will not succumb to the demands of evil that dwells safely in the deluded recesses of lying ideologies and man’s sinful nature. But that we will, with vigor, rise up, call upon the only God of actual liberty, to illumine minds and hearts bewitched by the seductress of terror under the earthly name, Islam and scatter our enemies to cause them to turn back or lie utterly defeated in their own land.
I pray that we will now close the borders of our worldly/earthly minds that attempt to apathetically assure us that peace can and should be made, by giving a voice and shelter to a dead god and prophet of the moderates marginalized by those who actually observe their book of faith in its entirety.
I pray we will see the value in vigilance and order to value ourselves enough to ensure those who dwell among us are with us and not against us.
This is a land of liberty.
If we do to respond spiritually and physically with the knowledge from above, we will indeed, live the hell below.
Your sister in Christ and fellow patriot,
Monica J. Matthews