Nine-year-old Cecelia Zhang has been found dead. There are days that the imprecatory psalms express perfectly how I feel toward those who would do such a thing.
Arrange for an evil person to turn on him.
Send an accuser to bring him to trial.
When his case is called for judgment,
let him be pronounced guilty.
Count his prayers as sins.
Let his years be few;
let his position be given to someone else.
(Psalm 109:6-8)
It's been a hard weekend to watch or read the news.
Justice will be served...I'd prefer now rather than later though...I defer to God.
There are times I would support the return of the death penalty. And then there are times when I think I would just turn the perpetrators of such evil over to the family of the victim.
But then I remember that we are supposed to be civilized.