Random Violence

What a strange phrase to coin. It is the surest sign of our need to explain the unexplainable. As if naming something absurd, somehow makes it less absurd.

In any case, the absurdity of random violence has hit home today. My nephew was stabbed seven times in the back last night. He is on a ventilator and that's about all I know right now. Apparently there was a robbery near where he was with the two girls in his car, and the criminals dragged my nephew and the girls out of the car and attacked them with knives. The girls' faces are slashed up, I'm told.

Again, as in the case of the atrocities at Virginia Tech, there is but one explanation, and it is best said here:

“the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick” (Jeremiah 17:9). We need new hearts (Ezekiel 11:19, John 3:3). We need Jesus.