Don’t celebrate people getting the bad they deserve. (Advent 13)

Send us Fan Mail Don’t celebrate people getting the bad they deserve. (Advent 13) “Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem” - from Isaiah 40:1-2 The people of Jerusalem were in a very bad situation. Worse, they, themselves were largely responsible for the hardship they were enduring. Their own actions had led to these horrible consequences. Notice how much different the prophet’s reaction is from many of ours. Instead of celebrating their destructi...