Monday, November 23, 2015

I Confess That I’m Praying for God to Bless ISIS. No Really, I Am.

That statement may seem odd to read coming from a Christian pastor.  Stranger still coming from someone who has always, always, supported the men and women of our armed forces.  But it is absolutely true.  I am sincerely praying for God’s blessing to be granted to those who are a part of this current malevolent threat to their countrymen and neighboring states; ISIS.

It’s not that I in any way feel that they are just, or right, or validated in their vicious quest for power and domination.  I in no way condone or encourage the continued oppression and murder that they commit in the name of advancing a caliphate.  I abhor it.  I feel knots begin to form in my stomach when I hear about the violence and hatred perpetuated.  I ache for their advance to be stopped!  I know that it will require brave souls willing to lay down their lives for their brothers and sisters in humanity to help bring this to an end.  The atrocities that have been committed, against both Christians and Muslims, by this regime represent the basest and most vile incarnation of evil imaginable to me.  And still, I pray that God bestows blessing.