“Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do; and greater works than these will he do" (John 14:12). It seems like one of those Bible verses to which we nod politely. Greater works than Christ? How many loaves have you multiplied lately? How many dead have been raised at your call?
Yet, it causes me to think of the Nigerian Christmas day bombings. "It was really terrible," said a priest. "Some [wounded] people ran towards me [saying] 'Father anoint me'." A priest anointing dying Christians who have just been detonated after their Christmas morning service? Perhaps those are greater works than these.
Lord have mercy on victims and killers both.
Yet, it causes me to think of the Nigerian Christmas day bombings. "It was really terrible," said a priest. "Some [wounded] people ran towards me [saying] 'Father anoint me'." A priest anointing dying Christians who have just been detonated after their Christmas morning service? Perhaps those are greater works than these.
Lord have mercy on victims and killers both.
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Lord, have mercy.
from DEVOTIONS UPON EMERGENT OCCASIONS
No man is an island, entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends of thine own were;
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind;
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
~John Donne
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