How To Know If He’s Guilty

I have been talking a bit about out Justice System in this wonderful Country, and the realization that Judges and juries (just like almost everyone else) sometimes tend toward making judgments before the case is heard, cannot be overlooked.

Almost always getting in on the pre-judgment are the “media-types” who have an agenda or an ax to grind. There is one particular area where there appears, at times, to be universal agreement. In my opinion that is unfortunate – and fails to get at the heart of the matter.

Consider the following: Three University students are killed – ostensibly over a parking spot – but the man arrested for the crime is obviously a Muslim hating, war-mongering, white supremacist, who longs for an opportunity to kill everyone who disagrees with his personal philosophy. How do we know that?

(DURHAM, N.C.) — Search warrants show the suspect in the shooting deaths of three Muslim college students in North Carolina had an arsenal of a dozen firearms in the home he shared with his wife, along with a large stash of ammunition. (Time)

Settled! Is there any need for a trial; any need to discuss this further? Obviously not.

It’s not just that it is unfair to portray owners of multiple guns and a significant stockpile of ammunition as potentially deranged killers, it overlooks the correct and primary problem of the wickedness in the heart of mankind apart from God. “Everyone knows” that people kill with guns, knives, hammers, sticks and stones, and that because their heart is evil. The actuality will never be changed by “gun laws” or “hammer laws,” but by the grace of God as men (and women) come to genuine faith in Jesus Christ. There is no other way to control the rage that burns within mankind. Laws won’t work. Psychology won’t work. Rehabilitation won’t work. Only God can change the human heart. Meanwhile the Enemy will continue to destroy lives while men without Truth seek solutions to one of life’s most difficult realization – “The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable — who can understand it? I, Yahweh, examine the mind, I test the heart to give to each according to his way, according to what his actions deserve. . . .” (Jeremiah 17:9-10)