Daily Bible

Today we go to church but cannot help it to think about the shooting on Friday night. When tragedy struck, it’s always like that: The victims died first, the police came later and the common people on the street, in this case, the shoppers, became helpless and defenseless, just waiting to be killed more or be rescued. When the police came to the scene, they would not rush in right away to help. At first they had to screen the environment to make sure they were safe first before going in, while the murderer could kill more, or kill himself, or escape. The government always wants to make sure that the ordinary people should be defenseless, be killed or not be killed is not an important matter although their speech always show compassion for the little man. Just lip service, at all. Although governments tell citizens that they enacted laws to prevent bad people to have weapons, but criminals, murderers and terrorists always have them, guns, machetes, knives, pressure cookers, acid, pipe bombs or whatever that they can kill or do damage to others. The police have guns, body armors, armor cars and whatever they need to protect themselves first when facing criminals. The politicians are always safe in their mansions with the best security that the common men can provide them by their taxes. In return, the government try their best to make sure that the common people cannot defend themselves. Just be killed. That’s why the politician in the White House wants to get more Muslim migrants into this country without a proper vetting system in place. That’s why politicians, when breaking security protocol, exposed classified documents to enemies, endangering national safety, nothing happens to them, because after all it’s ordinary citizens who are at the receiving end of tragedies and disasters, of wars and terrorist attacks, not them. It’s a sad story of human life. And that’s why we love Jesus wholeheartedly because He came to this world to die for us. The verse for today is:
(Matthew 20: 28) Just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many
(Ma-thi-ơ 20: 28) Ấy vậy, Con người đã đến, không phải để người ta hầu việc mình, song để mình hầu việc người ta, và phó sự sống mình làm giá chuộc nhiều người.