The Death-Masher:

Right now, three women must be rejoicing. The house where Ariel Castro held Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight as prisoners for ten years, inflicting great suffering on them, is being torn down.  As I type various members of the families are taking turns at the controls of a backhoe smashing the house of horrors to the ground.  

I nominate the judge in this case, Michael Russo, for the "Solomon Award, 2013" for making the destruction of this plain looking house part of Castro's sentence.  Not only did the judge decree the destruction of the structure, but he ordered Castro to pay for it. 

Of course not all prisons can be torn down with machines.  People all around us live in jails constructed of  walls and bars in their minds.  Look around, and you'll see the blank, hopeless look of those who are trapped and have ceased trying to escape.  

 

"Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,  and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives."  

(Hebrews 2:14-15)

 

 We still live in the house ruled by death, but, BUT, BUT the death sentence has been decreed for death itself.  Though death is the last enemy that will be destroyed the great destroyer will be put down.  In faith, looking forward to this day the Apostle Paul exults,

 

"Death is swallowed up in victory.  O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?"  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law; but thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." 

(1 Corinthians 15:55-57)

 

That's better than a turn at the controls of the house-masher.  This freedom will last forever.

 

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