A Limerick A Day to Keep You On Your Way April 20 Coincidental Thinking

April 20

Coincidental Thinking

Thought about history repeating,

Events that appear non-competing.

Coincidental,

Transcendental.

Evil will have its final meeting.

Can it be true that the heart of man is desperately evil? 

From the first murder recorded in the bible to today man does seem to have a desire to inflict evil upon each other.  I certainly have had some very unkind thoughts toward my fellow man.  Perhaps not to the degree of actually taking another person’s life but the bible does say all have fallen short of the glory of God and none are righteous. If not for the love of Jesus we would all be doomed to hell.  Thankfully He paid the price for us not to end up there.  But many never call on His name and are drawn into the evil temptations that are in their heart.

I often like to research a day’s historical events.  This search was very grievous for it revealed some horrific events in history that do indeed make us search our hearts to try and understand what causes a person to be drawn into the depths of such evil.   

On April 20, 1999 the Columbine High School shooting took place.  It was considered the worst school shooting but tragically more have happened.  April 20, 1889, was the day Adolf Hitler was born.  He left an evil legacy of death as well.  In my short trip into history I found recorded in the month of April two more evil events.  April 19, 1995 the Oklahoma bombing killed 168 people and injured 850 people. The Virginia Tech shooting took place April 16, 2007 where 32 people died and 17 were injured.

Only God can know the deepest depth of a soul’s heart and truly understand why.  I know that God is not to blame for man’s evil and He is always calling out for us to come to Him. I also know the evil one himself, satan, comes to tempt us all.  He knows our weakest points and if we are not careful to stay as close to the Word of truth as we can then anyone of us could be drawn away. Lord help us stay close.

The evil one does have his day though.  The day he can no longer tempt us, the day he finally meets his end and is cast into the eternal abyss.  I wonder if it takes place in April?