Believe in God's love

If you want to have great life, believe in God's love. How tragic and baseless is another shooting on a college campus. Our hearts and prayers go out to the families of the victims and all those who have been close to this senseless chaos caused by a derranged gunman at the NIU campus. At this point, we don't have a clue to his specific motivation, but we can assume that here was a young man who found no point to life, and he was so angry and bitter he wanted others to feel pain and heartache. Suicide is tragic of itself, but the desire to ruin and destroy others is the most heinous crime.
Crimes such as these point to those senselessness of life. These decry a nihilistic view of life which says there is no hope and meaning in life. If we have tried to be loved, tried to express ourselves, tried to find meaning, and nothing has brought fulfillment and direction, then nothing is left. This must be the final wrung in the ladder of those who have taken away God and eternity. Life is pointless without the love and mercy of God.
Some will use a shooting like this to say if God really loved us, He would not allow these things to happen. But He allows these events, as painful as they are, to bring us to an appex, a moment of thought, a moment of decision. We can now become embittered and angry at life, others, and God or we can reach out for something more - for love, for purpose, for God.
Now is a time for grieving. Now is a time for comforting those who have experienced trauma and tragedy. But we must not become embittered. We must seek the God of the Universe who has an eternal plan. There is purpose and meaning in life. He has shown us His love through Creation, through miracles, and ultimately through sending His Son Jesus to die on the cross to pay for the penalty of our sins. Through His pain and death, we can have purpose and experience the security of the love of God.