No One To Defend The Helpless

I don't know if you heard about the Muslim girl who converted to Christianity who has been (somewhat) in the news lately. She ran away from home because she feared that her family would kill her. Today I was saddened to read the following headline:

Judge Orders Christian Convert Runaway to Return to Ohio

My sister in the Lord is being forced back into a situation where she had reason to believe that she would be murdered by her own family. Perhaps the judge is grossly ignorant of the practices of Islam. After all we've been told that Islam is a "peaceful religion." But I've heard too many stories of Muslim converts to Christianity who find themselves "resting in peace" at the hands of those who should have undying love for them.

I am curious what grounds the judge had for forcing this young woman to go back. She is 17 years old - only months from her 18th birthday. Hopefully, those few months will not be her last. I will have to do more research.

The law is to protect the helpless, but in this country it never seems to. Where is justice? Where is the protection for the widow and the orphan? I am convinced that the state of our justice system makes God want to vomit.

I will be praying for this sister. I have been praying - but perhaps not diligently enough. But one thing is sure: God - the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Great I Am, The Sinner's Hope - will be glorified by this young woman's life.

Lord God,

I ask you to protect my sister's life. I ask you to give her courage and strength to face this unjust decision and to trust Your sovereignty and Your goodness. Defend her life, Lord, and soften the hearts of every lost soul that she knows to come to the knowledge of you.

Father, I know that this outcome does not surprise You, and I know that You have prepared her for this moment from before the foundation of time. Let Your Spirit hover close to her. Let her sense Your closeness and Your love. May Your angels encamp around her to keep her from even dashing her foot against a stone.

Fill her with Your word and help her to not worry about what to say or what to do, but to trust that You will give her the words to say and the courage to face whatever comes. Lord God, I place her into Your hands.

Amen.

God be with you, sister. I will be praying for you.

UPDATE:

In another article I read, the father says he loves his daughter and has no plans to harm her. I hope he is telling the truth.

But according to another article the young lady sure seems to think something else:

"If I had stayed in Ohio, I wouldn't be alive," she said. "In 150 generations in family, no one has known Jesus. I am the first — imagine the honor in killing me."

"There is great honor in that, because if they love Allah more than me, they have to do it. It's in the Koran,"

So who do you believe? I think you probably ought to err on the side of life. If it is possible that they may want to kill her then I think she should be allowed to protect her life. We'll see how it plays.

I Am Just So Incredibly Angry

It is like a mosquito that flies around your head all night long...

That's the way these terrorists are. They never really manage to do anything to defeat you; they just wear at you until you are ready to kill everyone over there. They like to pretend that they are brave warriors doing the will of allah (Mind you, allah is NOT God and never will be.) but the cowards chant their idiotic propaganda from behind a balaclava just before sawing off the head of another unarmed, bound, blindfolded American. Where is the courage in that? If you are so brave, take the masks off! Show the world who you are. Then, if you are arrested and executed for your crime (What are the chances of that in the Middle East?), you can really be a martyr. Hey, without the mask you could even hurry it along and get to your "virgins" faster. If you are so courageous, untie the man's hands and give him a weapon too!

I don't care what ANYONE says, Islam is an evil religion straight from satan's bottom. There is NOTHING peaceful about it and there is NOTHING good about it. It is a religion that has taken the people that are under its dominion and returned them to the dark ages.

Islam is a religion of death. Seriously! Do you see any Christians or Jews (or for that matter atheists) strapping a bunch of C-4 to their bodies and hopping onto a crowded school bus to detonate it? When was the last time you heard about a convention for Christian or Jewish suicide bombers? It will never happen! However, last week Iran hosted one for muslims.

Is there any morality in them? Give me a break! Most (if not all) of the 9/11 terrorists spent their last night on this earth with strippers and prostitutes. Is there any holiness in that? Where is the goodness in that? Why would anyone think that a just God would overlook an evil lifestyle just because of the way that he chose to commit suicide?

The really sad thing is this: these idiots are going to go to their deaths thinking that they have done a good thing only to come face to face with the REAL GOD of the universe and realize that He is VERY VERY unhappy with what they have been doing. It will be too late then.

You know, God doesn't take any delight in the deaths of the wicked. That is hard for me to fathom. I haven't gotten to that point yet, but I know that God has a much better perspective than I do on things. He must realize just how awful the eternal punishment is going to be.

That's the crazy part! God Himself endured life as a mortal and took our punishment in the most incredibly painful way imaginable because He loves us! I can't even comprehend that. Why? Why would He do that for me or for anyone else? Why would He do that to Himself? There must be depths of love that I have never plumbed.

The good news is that God actually likes us. He loves us - even those who would decapitate a man in the name of god and those of us who would hate them for doing it. My, my, my.