Look there goes another sinner; extend compassion and bring him back to me!

Look there goes another sinner; extend compassion and bring him back to me!

In the old days of punishing your child for being disobedient should never have been the way to set an example.  The wood shed or leather belt were used to make sure that the misbehaved child would never again dare to cross the authoritative parent’s rules.  

Imagine for just a quick moment how some children who experienced this type of correction treated their own children later in life.  Is it any wonder why there is so much corporal punishment in our world today?  Even the evil abusiveness we see on our streets, in our quiet neighborhoods, and perhaps in many homes where the theme of dictatorship seems to roll off the backs of too many young people via guns and knives that is causing grief where love and forgiveness have drifted away; replaced by murder and hatred in the youngest of our pride and joy.

We must put the authority of a parent who sees just what each of us is capable of doing while using the gift of free will to guide our intentions and desires.  This becomes the demand in the header of bringing sinners back to the Father as he sent his Son to seek and embrace you and I from our own path of wandering away from the Catechesis we learned about love and forgiveness.

There may not be enough concern from too many people who are viewing the results of pre-teens and older youth picking up a gun and if someone even looks at them in a manner of disgust shoots them.  Then after being arrested they ask themselves what just happened?

Sacred Scripture implies much of the turmoil that will become common as we await the end times;  The rest of the human race, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, to give up worship of demons and idols made from gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.  Nor did they repent of their murders, their magic potions, their unchasity, or their robberies.  (Rv 9: 20 - 21).

But understand this: there will be terrifying times in the last days.  People will be self-centered and lovers of money, proud, haughty, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, irreligious, callous, implacable, slanderous, licentious, brutal, hating what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, as they make pretense of religion but deny its power.  (2 Tm  3: 1 - 5).

Its power extended to the host of heaven, so that it cast down to earth some of the host and some of the stars and trampled on them.  It boasted even against the prince of the host, from whom it removed the daily sacrifice, and whose sanctuary it cast down, as well as the host, while sin replaced the daily sacrifice.  It cast truth to the ground, and was succeeding in its undertaking.  While I, Daniel, sought the meaning of the vision I had seen, a manlike figure stood before me, and on the Ulai I heard a human voice that cried out, “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”  “Understand, son of man, that the vision refers to the end time.  As he spoke to me, I fell forward in a faint; he touched me and made me stand up.  “I will show you,” he said, “what is to happen later in the wrath; for at the appointed time, there will be an end.  (Dn 8: 10 - 12, 15 - 16, 18 - 19)  

We absolutely are in the throes of violence that is beginning now and will, as prophecy states, continue through the turmoil that awaits future humanity; that is preparing to change the face of the world.

Ralph B.Hathaway