A few days ago, in the town next to my own, a young man raped and brutally murdered a 9-year-old girl.
This news sickened me!
I felt a strong desire for justice to be served upon this little girls murderer. It is so saddening to think of all the loved ones involved, in both the killer, and the little girls life, who are now suffering as a result of sin, particularly this young mans sin.
A few days back I also got this book called “Great Escape’s” from the library. It’s a compilation of true-life stories from people who have been caught in dangerous and deadly situations and yet, amazingly, managed to escape.
Tonight I read the story, Escaping from “Satan himself”. Boy did this story creep me out! I’d never heard of Jeffrey Dahmer before, but if you have I’m sure you know why.
I was on the edge of my seat the whole time while reading the story of Tracy Edwards, who escaped Dahmer’s deadly hands.
Jeffrey Dahmer committed 17 gruesome murders involving rape, torture, dismemberment, necrophilia and cannibalism.
As I read the horrible facts I started to think of all the evil people that inhabit this earth and how unsafe and scary it is to live here. I began to long for my home in heaven! Oh, what a wonderful day it will be when there is no more sin, no more sadness, no more horrible news to have to hear, no more fear of whackos, and no more serial killers, murderers, and rapists.
Jeffrey Dahmer claims to have gotten saved in prison. At first I had a hard time accepting that. I didn’t want to think that such a sicko could walk down the streets of gold. But that thought only lasted a moment, because if God were not ALL merciful and willing for ALL sinners to repent then I myself could never walk through those pearly gates!
God’s love, manifest in Jesus, is big enough and strong enough for every murderer, rapist, thief, liar, angry, disobedient, prideful sinner who has ever been born to find mercy and grace at the foot of the cross. WOW, that is a God of love!
The need for justice that is surging through my veins right now, thinking of the horrors that I’ve been talking about, must be felt a billion times stronger by God. He knows and sees ALL. He is constantly aware of an amount of sin and sadness that none of us can even fathom! And this Just God WILL NEVER let the guilty go unpunished! For every sinner made saint there was horrendous wrath poured out on the perfect, spotless, sinless Lamb of God!
Gods justice has been met, Jesus took the punishment. And if Jesus was willing to take the place on the judgment seat for sinners like Jeffery Dahmer who am I to say he can’t be forgiven?
I too have had a GREAT ESCAPE to tell about!
Think about it. What worse, horrible, dreadful, painful, and terrifying situation could anyone find themselves in then the pit of Hell?
And the fact is, I was once on my way sliding down a slippery slope of sin straight towards those flames, with NO hope of escape on my own. But with one cry for help my Jesus came and rescued me! He did it all, and now I am free! I am an escapee from the worst fate possible to man!
Are YOU? Have you experienced The Greatest Escape?
Ya know, if I, like Aron Ralston, had an amazing story of being pinned under a boulder at the bottom of a canyon, and yet managed to escape, you better believe I’d tell you about it if given the chance!
Then I remembered. I do have an incredible story to tell of a rescue from far move then a canyon grave. I have escaped the Just and righteous, furious, wrath of a HOLY God. In exchange for wrath, I will experience endless days of sheer and unthinkable pleasure. I’ve not only escaped something dreadful, I’ve received a future of the best of the best imaginable! Now THAT’S a story to tell!
Jesus Christ, God of the Universe, Creator of all things, Lover of mankind, Savior of the World, Our Only hope for heaven, The Way, The Truth and the Life! He’s the one we ALL need to be our righteousness on Judgment day!
I’m telling you my story right now since I have the chance!
I have been saved, given a new life that is only found in Christ. I am one with him, and when I stand before God, Alysa’s sin will be nowhere to be found. God’s gonna let me in because my life long record of sin and disobedience has been blotted out with blood and a list containing 33 years of righteousness has been recorded in its place. Jesus has replaced my failings with his perfection.
This story can be yours, simply fall with empty hands into Jesus’ open arms!
Philippians 3:8-10 Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
