It’s Just Not Cricket
Last week the Sri Lankan Cricket Team were the subject of a terrorist attack in Lahore, Pakistan, while driving to the third day of their test match against the national team.
While tragically six police and a driver were killed, the ‘results’ of the attack could have been much worse. What if the whole Sri Lankan team had been murdered?
Not since the attack on the Israeli Olympic Team in Munich 1972, has a sporting team been so deliberately pursued by terrorists.
There were media reports that suggested that up to this point, even terrorists understood that sporting teams were ‘off limits.’ After all, sports stars enjoy almost idol status on the sub continent- so why upset the locals by targeting them?
On the other hand, when the ‘end justifies the means’ why would terrorists consider sporting teams exempts when in the past, schools, hospitals and refugee camps have all been targeted?
The truth is that the depravity of man has no earthly limits. That dreadful reality has its potential in all of us.
The heart of unregenerate man is deceitful above all things and desperately
wicked- only God himself knows its depravity. The miracle in our world at the moment is how man has not yet destroyed himself and the world he inhabits.
Were it not for our sovereign and merciful God holding all things together by the word of His power, we would all be in the grave by now.
Through the LORD’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22-23
Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts. And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. Romans 6:12-13
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