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Arsenio
Terrance Brinson
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The
woman with the bleeding problem spent all her money and a great deal
of effort to find a solution for her suffering. How likely are you to
try every other option before you take your problem to God?
(Serendipity Bible 10th Anniversary Edition, page 1401).
If
I must die, I must die. (Esther 4:16).
Today
I must speak of gun control. Saturday I attended the funeral for
Arsenio Terrance Brinson. When shot on the streets of St. Petersburg
January 20, 2014, he was 26 years old. I did not know him personally
but am a friend of his mother, Brenda. I cannot help but think of the
visuals that must be haunting Brenda at this point – those years
when she carried him, when she held him as an infant and a child,
when she nurtured him through elementary school, and cultivated all
of her dreams for him during his high school years. And then, faced
with today's unfathomable abyss, the unalterable fact of emptiness
chiseled forever at the funeral with the closing of the casket.
I
have seen cheerful persons cheerleading unrestricted handguns for our
nation. It is my opinion that these enthusiasts for unlimited
distribution of handguns have not attended a sufficient number of
funerals for those they hold dear.
In
my view we have come to a point of desperation—the same point as
the woman with the bleeding problem who out of desperation touched
Jesus for healing. It is time for caring Americans to stand up and
say enough is enough with no regard whatever for personal
consequences – if I must die, I must die.
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