09/13/2025
These last few days have been heavy. There’s no other way to describe it. I’ve watched people express anger, sadness, and blame. I’ve seen memories shared of that terrible attack on our country 24 years ago. A time when, despite the pain, we were united as one America.
Today, I look around and see a nation so divided, so broken, and drifting further from God. A nation where the death of a person can be celebrated simply because of their race, their beliefs, or their ideas. We have lost sight of our humanity. We have lost sight of God. And much of it is because we’ve become biblically illiterate unfamiliar with God’s Word, His commands, and His design for how we are meant to live. When truth is no longer our foundation, confusion and destruction always follow.
I understand when we see darkness around us, it’s easy to question God. “Where is God in all of this?” The very fact that we can recognize evil means we also know there is good. Without God, there would be no standard for right and wrong. Evil itself points us back to the reality of a God who defines love, justice, and truth.
Too often we respond by blaming entire groups of people for the actions of a few. We point fingers at “them” instead of looking inward at the human heart. Evil is not the product of a race, a party, or a religion, it is the result of sin within the heart of man. Just as evil begins in the heart, so does the choice to love. Healing won’t come from blaming others, it will only come when each of us takes responsibility for our own hearts before God.
Resist the urge to make people who are different from you the enemy. The more different we are, the better we are able to watch out for each other’s blind spots and complement each other’s gifts. Conflicts aren’t meant to destroy us they are meant to refine us and teach us how to love in deeper, stronger ways.
We cannot survive as a people if we continue down this path of hatred, vengeance, and celebration of destruction. This is not how God created us to live, and it is not what He has called us to be.
Love is what endures. Love is what tears down walls. Love is what overcomes. God demonstrated that love by sending His Son to endure the weight of our sins, a pain I can’t even begin to imagine.
As I’ve sat in this heaviness, I’ve chosen to stand on the hope of unity I know still exists within this country. A love that God has placed in each of us. I will not let divisive voices stop me from showing His love.
I challenge you, as you read this to choose love, not hate. We can disagree and still respect one another. We can have different views and still care for one another. Hatred ends when love endures. Let it begin with us.
2 Timothy 1:7 - For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power, love and self control.