Yesterday on the way to church in East Point we passed by a crime scene.  In fact, the police had roped off an entire block of street with yellow crime scene tape.  You could see people coming in and out of a house with plastic gloves.  The news reports and trucks were on the scene.  From the looks of it, we thought that this must have been serious.  This morning, the newspaper revealed just how serious.

Apparently, yesterday afternoon  an 87 year old man killed himself, his wife, and his 12 year old grandson.  It was the couple’s 57th wedding anniversary.  You can read the tragic report here.

In reading the story this morning and recalling the way the scene looked as we were detoured from our route, I am reminded of the message of the gospel, which is the message of hope.  In fact, it is the only true hope of humanity.  Someone somewhere has rightly said:

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.

Yet, we must know that Christ is our hope.  And as long as He lives, so too does our hope.  The Bible puts it this way:

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ, our hope (1Tim. 1:1).

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