Friday, July 8, 2011

Some Things Impossible To Understand

"But if anyone causes one of these little ones who trusts in me to lose faith, it would be better for that person to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around the neck."

-- Matthew 18:6

The nation has been riveted to television coverage of the trial of a young Florida mother. Her two-year-old daughter went missing. The child’s body was found six months later. The mother was charged and, just this week, found not guilty of murder.

Outrage was swift and loud. People couldn’t believe that this woman wasn’t found guilty of murder. The woman was found guilty only of four counts of lying. See, when others finally realized that the child truly was missing -- about a month after the mother claimed to have last seen her daughter -- the woman lied repeatedly to the police. She hindered the investigation as law enforcement tried to find her child.

It’s difficult to comprehend that a mother would fail to report her child as missing. We can’t understand why she would lie to the people trying to find that child. We can’t believe that she would be out partying just days after she claims she last saw her little girl.

And yet it happens far more frequently that we want to believe. We want to think that all mothers love their children, but they don’t. We want to believe that all mothers would do anything to protect their children, but that’s not true. Some mothers are just bad mothers. Some mothers cross the line into abuse and more, things we can hardly stand to think about.

I don’t know if this woman killed her little girl or not. But God does. And He tells us that vengeance belongs to Him. I trust in that. When the courts fail -- if they did in this case -- then God will take care of it.

We should also remember that God wants every one of His children to repent and come to know Him. Refuse to harden your heart and instead pray that this woman will come to know God and welcome Jesus into her heart.

As for little Caylee, I believe that she’s with Jesus now. Jesus loves children. The Bible tells us He welcomed them. He wanted us all to have the same faith as a small child, as someone who trusts and believes in what he cannot see. So I trust that Caylee is in heaven and that her murderer will not escape God’s justice.