By Joseph Korson
Twitter was how I heard the news that the bodies of the three kidnapped boys were found bound and mutilated outside of Hebron. My soul screamed in agony the moment I understood what I was reading. I felt an overwhelming sense of loss and sorrow. I knew in that moment the whole nation of Israel felt the same as I did and I wept.
Images of the family standing before the world believing their sons would be found alive swept before my weeping eyes. I tried to imagine the desperate loss they must be feeling right now. No matter how much I empathized with their pain I knew I could never feel what they are feeling right now. I look upon my two beautiful girls and couldn’t even think about a world without their light in it. The thought of it was too unbearable.
The Nation of Israel is in a state of shock and mourning, lamenting the loss of three of their cherished youths. We love our children and do all we can to keep them out of harm’s way. We do what it takes to create a normal, happy and positive environment for them to grow up in. We teach them a message of love and peace in the hope that someday they may live in a land that finally has true peace.
In a Nation that has never been allowed a moment of sustained peace, the fact that we can raise happy and confident children is proof of this. Look at the eyes of these three boys. Their eyes are windows into our very souls. I look and I don’t see fear, hatred and anger. I see happy, well-adjusted good children with a lust for life!
These beautiful children of Zion have been brutally snatched from this life by the hand of pure lustful evil that takes joy in the slaughter of innocence.
I am shaking in anger and am raging against the injustice of this act and yet taking a portion of comfort in the knowledge that vengeance will be had. Not by me, the IDF or any political means but by the hand of the God of Israel.
I know this because I see how ALL Israel’s enemies have felt the hand of Gods judgment. History is no liar and the truth is plain to see.
I pray for the families of Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar and Naftali Fraenkel. I ask that He comforts their wailing hearts and preserves them in this trying time. I pray for my Nation as it feels the pain of losing yet more of her children to cowardly and wicked souls. I ask the Almighty to give our leaders courage and wisdom in the days ahead. As hard as it may be, I ask the God of Israel to have mercy on the innocents amongst our enemies!
Genesis 12:3
“And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
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