The Shame of a Father

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The deep tragedy of Sandy Hook is obvious. The sin and the evil that occurred that day was something I mourned for. I remember sitting in a Starbucks in NYC and watching the news. I was deeply saddened to think of these children and the millions of people affected by such a tragedy.

The gunman's father speaks out and says, "I wish my son had never been born." I am not sure how to respond to this. I don't think I should feel proud for him to say such a thing. I just feel deeply saddened. His own father wishes he was never born. Can you imagine how much that would hurt to realize?

I have the contrasting emotions of deep sadness at such words and then deep gratitude when I am reminded by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My father -- saw me in my sin. He saw everything I had done and everything I would do -- but loved me.

He took the sin and all the evil ways I had killed and murdered people cruelly in my heart and he laid it upon his beloved Son. He sent his beloved Son to die for the sake of his love for me. He saw all the terrible things I had done -- and he never regretted creating me. But he pursued me and loved me.

Now that's the truth of a Father's love -- that something that this world will never understand when the love of a Father to a son can be seen as something regrettable. That is not the love of our King.