Matthew 13.37 describes the field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one.

The world is shocked and incredulous that a young man would murder his mother then 26 other innocents. Certainly what happened in Connecticut this past week is horrible, sad and the worst picture of our human situation.

Yet the Bible from the beginning portrays this story of man killing man after choosing to depart from allegiance and obedience to God. In only the fourth chapter of God’s story of love and hope for His creation, He pleads for a man not to kill his brother but alas is ignored and the first born son into the world murders the second born son.

Since the beginning men have killed men and will continue to do so until God ends the world as we know it and creates a new heavens and a new earth.

We ignore God and have declared there is no absolute truth, morality or religion yet when the kind of mayhem that occurred in Connecticut happens we immediately know in our deepest parts that a great evil has transpired and something is terribly wrong with the human condition.

This condition is why we celebrate Christmas. Not the rejoicing over evil but the rejoicing over the Savior Who has come to restore people’s hearts to God and empower them with the ability to overcome evil with good.

All of us do wrong. We know we are broken. Not as bad as a murderer but when we argue with our spouse, reject our parents, yell at our children and ignore our friends we know we too are broken.

This brokenness is God’s calling card left in our hearts so that we might cry out to Him our Creator for restoration. We desperately need a Savior.

This evil occurred because evil exists in our world. Evil has been brought about by our own choosing to ignore God and our own unwillingness to obey Him unequivocally. The result is our incapacity to consistently love, to consistently do good and to consistently treat our neighbor as we ourselves wish to be treated.

There is only one answer to this dilemma: Jesus the Savior, God incarnate must be welcomed back into our hearts and when He comes He will empower us to love one another as He intended and as we truly long to do.