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We all know now about Cassie Bernall, one of the students killed at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. She was shot when she answered, "Yes," to the gunman's question, "Do you believe in God?"
She had had a troubled time a couple years earlier, had been trying drugs and contemplating suicide, had been running with the wrong crowd. But her parents had enrolled her in a Christian school and camp where she had come to a strong faith in Jesus Christ. She eventually returned to the public school, but as a redeemed person.
No one would have ever thought that dying there was the way God intended for her to give her witness. But as her youth pastor, Dave McPherson, acknowledged, "A week ago, I couldn't have mentioned God in school, and now everybody wants to talk about God. Cassie gave us the opportunity."
One of our great comforts as Christians is that the risen and ascended Christ now rules over all things in the best interest of those whom he loves. We cannot say that Christ wanted Cassie's life to end as it did, but we are assured that evil will not prevail. Ultimately, God's gracious purpose will always triumph.
She had had a troubled time a couple years earlier, had been trying drugs and contemplating suicide, had been running with the wrong crowd. But her parents had enrolled her in a Christian school and camp where she had come to a strong faith in Jesus Christ. She eventually returned to the public school, but as a redeemed person.
No one would have ever thought that dying there was the way God intended for her to give her witness. But as her youth pastor, Dave McPherson, acknowledged, "A week ago, I couldn't have mentioned God in school, and now everybody wants to talk about God. Cassie gave us the opportunity."
One of our great comforts as Christians is that the risen and ascended Christ now rules over all things in the best interest of those whom he loves. We cannot say that Christ wanted Cassie's life to end as it did, but we are assured that evil will not prevail. Ultimately, God's gracious purpose will always triumph.
