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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
So Today There Was a Verdict... #caseyanthonyverdict
...and Casey Anthony was found innocent of the murder of her daughter, toddler Caylee.
The internet is abuzz with shock and horror that she got away with it, that justice wasn't served for Caylee. There are tributes everywhere, as if it makes any difference to either Caylee or to Casey. And everybody seems to have an opinion or a thought on the matter.
Here is mine.
First, Caylee doesn't care. She is in the arms of Jesus, a place where we Christians are promised to go eventually, and our hope in this life. Caylee has already reached that hope, and is (figuratively, at least) skipping down those streets of gold and feasting in her mansion on the hilltop. The trial and the verdict and the outcry does not touch her.
Second, I wasn't in the courtroom, and didn't see all of the evidence or hear all of the witnesses, so I can't really say whether Casey is innocent or guilty. It is my stab-in-the-dark guess that all who are proclaiming Casey guilty weren't there either. Nor were any of us there when Caylee died. To me, proclaiming loudly something I don't - can't possibly - know with certainty only shows my own foolishness.
Third, if Casey did murder her child, in God's eyes that sin is no more heinous than yours or mine, no less worthy of forgiveness, no less covered by the blood of Jesus. Our sin is more awful than we can imagine in God's eyes, so horrible in His sight that it took the ultimate sacrifice to pay the price for it. Casey is - or would be - no more or less guilty of sin that any one of us.
Fourth, there is an enormous wailing and gnashing of teeth for Caylee today. Yet today 3900 babies in the United States alone also died by their mother's hand, or by her orders. Where is the justice in that? Why are no porch lights shining for those innocent ones, who were created by God as surely as Caylee was and whose death was just as painful and terrible for them?
My opinion is this: Casey Anthony is a sinner the exact same as I am, or that you are, or that all of those other mothers whose children die by their hands are. And we are all in need of a Savior, One who loves each of us enough that He allowed Himself to be brutally and horrifically tortured just so that we could come into the presence of the perfect almighty God for eternity. We all have that opportunity, we all can accept or reject it, and we all will be judged according to our works. Earthly judgments are flawed. Eternal ones are not.
So, whether or not Casey murdered her child is really a moot point, in the scope of eternity.
The internet is abuzz with shock and horror that she got away with it, that justice wasn't served for Caylee. There are tributes everywhere, as if it makes any difference to either Caylee or to Casey. And everybody seems to have an opinion or a thought on the matter.
Here is mine.
First, Caylee doesn't care. She is in the arms of Jesus, a place where we Christians are promised to go eventually, and our hope in this life. Caylee has already reached that hope, and is (figuratively, at least) skipping down those streets of gold and feasting in her mansion on the hilltop. The trial and the verdict and the outcry does not touch her.
Second, I wasn't in the courtroom, and didn't see all of the evidence or hear all of the witnesses, so I can't really say whether Casey is innocent or guilty. It is my stab-in-the-dark guess that all who are proclaiming Casey guilty weren't there either. Nor were any of us there when Caylee died. To me, proclaiming loudly something I don't - can't possibly - know with certainty only shows my own foolishness.
Third, if Casey did murder her child, in God's eyes that sin is no more heinous than yours or mine, no less worthy of forgiveness, no less covered by the blood of Jesus. Our sin is more awful than we can imagine in God's eyes, so horrible in His sight that it took the ultimate sacrifice to pay the price for it. Casey is - or would be - no more or less guilty of sin that any one of us.
Fourth, there is an enormous wailing and gnashing of teeth for Caylee today. Yet today 3900 babies in the United States alone also died by their mother's hand, or by her orders. Where is the justice in that? Why are no porch lights shining for those innocent ones, who were created by God as surely as Caylee was and whose death was just as painful and terrible for them?
My opinion is this: Casey Anthony is a sinner the exact same as I am, or that you are, or that all of those other mothers whose children die by their hands are. And we are all in need of a Savior, One who loves each of us enough that He allowed Himself to be brutally and horrifically tortured just so that we could come into the presence of the perfect almighty God for eternity. We all have that opportunity, we all can accept or reject it, and we all will be judged according to our works. Earthly judgments are flawed. Eternal ones are not.
So, whether or not Casey murdered her child is really a moot point, in the scope of eternity.
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