Justice and prayer

         In light of the horrendous acts the were committed yesterday in Boston Mass. There has been a side of me that has come to the surface that has popped its head out at different points in my life, this is the desire for justice and that those who have committed these crimes must be punished with the most sever punishment we have available in our nation. This especially emerges when children are involved in the event. I was having a discussion with my girlfriend about this event yesterday, where we both came to the conclusion that we approach these type of situations in different ways. I am the kind of person where is a person commits these kinds of acts where children and innocent victims are murdered my first inclination is to find them and bring the full strength of the justice system on to them, not sparing them in anyway so they can suffer in the same way that the families of the victims have suffered. Where as her first thoughts are to find ways in which she can assist the families of the victims. There is nothing wrong with these views, but I know in my view that while I may desire for this person to suffer, my mind must first go to the gospel, that if it was not for the gospel that I could be in the same place as the person who committed these acts. From the scriptures we know that God is a just God who will give to sinners all that they have deserve for their life time of sinning. I am truly humbled by the thought of God seeing fit to save someone like me who has blasphemed his name without remorse, who has known his ways yet go ahead and do what my flesh desires. While I do hope that this person who murdered these three people I know that anything we do to this person is nothing compared to the justice system of God, in which the judge is not a human who has spent years studying law, received a degree, was put in a place of authority to cast judgement over criminals. No God has always been the perfect judge who cannot be swayed by feelings or interpretations of the law. He is the one who wrote the laws and has set the standards that must be met to be called just. If we do not meet that standard at the moment the "gavel" falls in the courtroom of God we will cast into hell where for all eternity God will pour out his wrath. For those whom God does not save that through should frighten them, but the scariest part is that they have little or no concern about the justice of God. They live their lives as the Corinthians who would say “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” 
(1 Cor. 15:32) when they breath their last breathe they will receive a huge wake up call. 

        As a Christian in America today my first act must be to pray for the victims and for the person or persons  who committed this crime. For the victims families that God would give them comfort during this time that beyond what words can express. We must also pray for the ones who committed the crime that God will bring them to himself and that they will repent of these sins. When this person is caught if they have repented and believed in Christ they must also be willing to take the punishment that comes with the crimes they have committed, their punishment in God courtroom is taken by Christ, but in the worlds courtroom their guilt is in the hands of human judges. I pray that God would bring Christians to those who have been affected by this horrendous act.