Sunday, September 08, 2019

Robert Mugabe is dead. What is your reaction?

In the midst of the gender violence awakening at the moment, I want to take a moment to comment on Robert Mugabe's death. 

I am appalled at the celebration of many art his death. Yes, he was a dictator. Yes, he was involved in despicable violence. Yes, he was selfishness and corrupt power personified. But I don't rejoice at his death. 

Jesus has not returned yet in order to give more people time to turn to him and be saved. This soul is now lost to him, and in the same way that all heaven rejoices when one souls is saved, I can only imagine all heaven laments when one is lost forever. While I am glad that he can no longer perpetrate his vile evil against others, I mourn that he could not be saved. 

Whatever evil he did, he was also a human being who was lost and broken, and now will never be found or healed, who will  now never have the chance to make reparations for the evil he did, or to apologise to those he wronged, or to be granted forgiveness. I cannot rejoice or celebrate his death, and I find I am appalled at the lack of humanity by those who do.

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