I was reading something CS Lewis wrote during WWII and was struck by his prayers for Hitler and Stalin.  I thought about it and of course it made sense–the conversion of either monster into a sentient man would have stunned the world and altered human history.  But that is not the only way Lewis could have prayed, in fact I am certain it wasn’t.

I am pretty sure that while Lewis would have rightly prayed for the Light of God to invade two dark hearts, he also would have prayed that good would thwart evil, that God in His mercy would stop these men in their paths.

Many of us do not know or remember that there was a time, a long time, when neither of these men was looked at as a monster (and that there are still many who would bristle at me calling them that).

I do it deliberately.  They are dead and the trajectory of their lives and deaths is not only complete, but thoroughly unredeemed.  They could have chosen not to be monsters, the power of the Cross applies to either man in the same measure it applies to me; only I have chosen to let it apply to me, they did not.

My point?  I once confronted a “church leader” with a particularly monstrous sin.  He told me I was not Christian to do so, that I was not acting like Jesus.

I told him that if Jesus could raise such a ruckus over a few damaged and overpriced doves in the Temple, how much more would He react in righteous anger to the torture and abuse of innocence?!

Who does he think this Jesus dude is?  A greeting card fiction?

Who did Stalin and Hitler think He was?

And finally, most incisively, who do you think He is?

Revelation 19:11-16