who will show her the love of Christ?

CBC News: Children of slain pregnant woman drowned: autopsy

KRT Wire | 09/24/2006 | Woman accused of cutting out fetus went about daily life

my heart is pulled, as usual with such crimes, to the perpetrator. everyone else in the world is gripped by the stories of victims of various crimes... but few are gripped by the lost-ness of one who committed the crime.

she, like the rest of us, needs to find Jesus. she, like the rest of us, can find His grace, mercy, and forgiveness. she, like the rest of us, can come before the throne of God and recieve the redemptive work of Christ.

but how many of us are going bad-mouth her? how many will say, oh she's a crazy woman, so evil, she's going to burn in hell.....

well, yeah, she'll burn in hell if she doesn't find Christ. so would we have, if we didn't find Christ (or rather, He found us).

yeah, this is not the behaviour of a sane woman. but God can reach even the most insane person out there.

and yeah, she's evil... but so are we all, in and of ourselves. if we have ever hated our brother, we have sinned with the same gravity as this woman.

we have no place to judge her soul: Jesus is going to do that - that's not our job. our job is to reach out and love and show the mercy and forgiveness that Jesus offers her.

david berkowitz found Jesus, and he was the son of sam murderer! a serial murderer! now he's sharing the gospel to all the people he's in jail with!!! (he'll be in jail his whole life). what a redemtive God we serve. read more about david berkowitz here. you can watch a video of his testimony, too... a testimony of the amazing delivering power and mercy and grace and forgiveness of God.

and bad-mouthing *anybody* is something that's grievous to God... no matter how much they seem to deserve it.