In the wake of those horrific shootings at Virginia Tech I got to thinking about how commonplace war and violence is in our world. Not only is Iraq a reality for us today, but on this 19th day of May over the years, consider the following...
1587: English admiral Sir Francis Drake entered Cadiz harbor and sank the Spanish fleet
1775: The American Revolutionary War began at the Battle of Lexington, Mass. Eight Minutemen were killed and 10 wounded in an exchange of musket fire with British Redcoats. The shot heard round the world.
1824: English poet Lord Byron died of a fever while aiding Greek rebels fighting the Turks
1943: During World War Two, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces
1990: Nicaragua's 9-year-old civil war neared its end as Contra guerrillas, the Sandinistas and the incoming government agreed to a truce and a deadline for the rebels to disarm
1993: The 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including David Koresh, were killed
1994: Bosnian Serbs seized anti-aircraft guns from U.N. guards near Sarajevo and shelled a hospital and U.N. buildings in Gorazde
1995: A truck bomb exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, and injuring 500.
And on it goes...
About a year and a half ago I wrote about watching the movie, Troy, and remarking that at one point in the movie Achilles is asked, "When will it end?" His reply is simply, "It will never end." And centuries later, it has not ended.
To paraphrase the late Reuel Lemmons, only the gospel of Jesus will make way for the doves of peace to build their nests in our cannon barrels.
Jesus is still the answer for the world today.
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