I continue to be amazed how God will use a tragedy to send a positive message in order to get people’s attention.

What many people said was “beyond any comprehension” after a 21-year old racist killed nine African Americans in a South Carolina church.

“It was an act of pure, pure concentrated evil,” said the Charleston mayor, Joseph P. Riley, Jr.

How can anyone disagree that it was anything but evil?

The next day, police arrested Dylan Storm Roof of Shelby, N.C. as the prime suspect.

He went to the church and sat in on their Bible study. The congregation accepted him with open arms and then the massacre.

One of those killed was the Pastor Clementa Pinckney, also a state senator.

How could anything good come out of this heinous crime?

Unlike the Trayvon Martin case in Florida, the killing of a black man in Jefferson, Missouri, and the handling of a black man who died under police protection in Baltimore, the congregation of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church displayed their faith, love and forgiveness to the rest of the world.

No rioting, no hatred, no blame on anyone or anything, other than an evil act.

Missing from the news in South Carolina was no Al Sharpton or Jessie Jackson who thrive on these opportunities to promote racial tension.

President Obama tried to make it a political issue calling for gun control.

Hilter’s evil act could have been blamed on the gas chambers. The beheading of Christians by the militant group ISIS, could be blamed on knives.

It’s time for people to get honest and realize that evil is active throughout the world.

In a 2013 sermon, the deceased pastor shared what their church was all about. He said, ‘it’s about the freedom to be fully what God intends us to be and have equality in the sight of God. And sometimes you got to make noise to do that. Sometimes you may have to die.’

I think it’s exactly what God intended His Church to be.

Because of the acceptance and love shown to Dylan the few minutes he spent in the church, it wouldn’t surprise me if he would repent, be saved and spend eternity in Heaven.  That’s how God works.

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