Shootings in Colorado

I didn’t turn on the news at all yesterday so I didn’t find this out until today. Five people were killed in Colorado yesterday, 3 in Colorado Springs in the parking log of a church and 2 who were at a YWAM base in Arvada.

We live in a country where we are free to practice whatever religion we choose and I know that most of the time I take this for granted. All five of these people were out to serve God and lost their lives while doing so.

This incident reminds me of the underground church that is thriving in many parts of the world. The very real danger of losing their life is something that Christians in many parts of the world think about on a daily basis whenever they sneak off to church to worship Jesus or open their Bible in a dark closet. We hear stories of martyrs on the other side of the word and I know that I often times feel so far removed from their persecution and struggles because of the very freedoms that I’ve taken for granted.

Those that were killed yesterday serve as a reminder to me, and hopefully to you as well, that while we are free in Christ, we still live in a fallen world where there is a very real enemy who wants to stop the worship of the One True God. Let us bring glory to God out of such horrible circumstances to show the enemy that he will not silence us!

My prayers are with the families of those who lost loved ones yesterday.