Full & Clear Evidence

Well....,
I am through making promises. Back in the middle of last year, I made myself and all the poor, hoodwinked folks who read this blog, a promise to post once a month and update the prayer request each week. It is now February of 2011, and not once, NOT ONCE, I have I posted a thing. I might as well face the fact that, a pastor only has so much time, and blogging just doesn't always fit into the schedule.

There's been lots to ponder about these past few months. Big events in our world. Sad events in our world. Events to make you weep. And 'twas humans that did it all.

One of the awfulest happenings of the past year was the horrific Case of the Killer Colonel. Canada has had it's fair share of unspeakable criminal acts, and I suppose in many ways, the Killer Colonel wasn't really any worse than others that have made the headlines. Yet, there was something about the case that I found particularly captivating.

Colonel William Russel. The face of Canada's pride & joy; decorated soldier, even piloted her Majesty's plane will she toured Canada, and seemingly faithful & devoted husband to an unsuspecting wife. But behind the facade, things were going on that no one could have imagined. Behind the mask, evil lurked, growing in the shadows. The Colonel had a double life. He was a predator of the worst kind, a sexual deviant extraordinaire, a contemptible peeping tom, a warped sicko with a twisted fetish, a KILLER. As a final touch to this revolting speciman of criminality, he documented all his heinous exploits with almost compulsive detail and order.

But the devil was in the details, and one of those details lead the RCMP to the killer at last. Videos showed the colonel cornered like a rat, first in the police interegation room and, subsequently, in court. All the hellish details he had taken such pains to preserve were presented as evidence. The evidence was full & clear, impossible to deny or avoid: videos, pictures, and stolen items of clothing from his victims.

The news media had a field day with the story of the Killer Colonel. Contempt, hatred and scorn was lavished on the Killer Colonel, and rightly so.

But one thought kept haunting me: what wickedness and deviancy would come to the light if the imaginations and thoughts of all humanity were suddenly revealed?

It is very easy to take pot shots at Killer Colonels, nor is it wrong to do so. What William Russel did deserved to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law; he was absolutely deserving of everything justice could bring down upon his miserable pate. But, what about us? The ones whom the law has never caught up with? We may not all be Killer Colonels (by the grace of God I'm not!), but what would the light of truth reveal if the secrets of our hearts were suddenly revealed?

It's a thought well-worth pondering, considering that someday every secret of of every human heart WILL be laid bare to the universe. Before God, the countless angels, and every member of Adam's race, our sins, our thoughts, our every word, our every attitude shall be exposed. The evidence will be full & clear. There will be no chance of denying any of it. Nothing will be hidden and nothing witheld.

We will be prosecuted to the fullest extant of the law, and we will deserve it. Even we won't be able to gainsay the sentence.

So, I ask you, what evidence is against you?

Watching & prayering,
Pastor Chelle