It is wrong to kill. If is far more wrong to let a killer do this evil deed. It is wrong to hurt someone else. It is far more wrong to let someone hurt another if we have the power to stop a person doing the hurting.

Our president, our nation, and our world now stand at a crossroads. We must all make a terrible choice between the lesser of two evils. We must choose between letting evil murderous individuals continue to murder or whether we kill them to stop them from murdering again. We do not like having to make this choice, for some of us…our children, our friends, our family, and ourselves may die in the process of stopping evil and for standing up for the right.

To maintain the order of our world, to maintain our opportunity to believe in God, to praise His name, and to worship Him, we must now make that terrible choice. What is in our heart this day? What are we thinking when we make this choice? Are we grieved at having to make this choice? Will the grief of having to make this choice cause us to not make a choice at all? Will the grief of having to make this choice cause us to commit our life to Christ as we have never committed it before?

As Christians, we do not embrace war, killing, maiming, and the destruction of any life. Today we are faced with a terrible choice between stopping evil by doing what we would, in normal circumstances, consider to be wrong or we can choose to let evil continue. Perhaps we must recognize our present circumstance is not normal.

In this moment of so much devastation, we must pray.