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He Let Them Die by Raymond A. Foss
We talk of the slaughter
Herod’s massacre of the innocents
The same, in an earlier time,
the rage of the pharaoh.
Two who would save the people
saved from the wrath of power.
But a question from the class,
from the teen, trying to understand…
The flight to Egypt saved a savior;
but innocent blood was spilt
Couldn’t he has saved the innocents
by staying in Bethlehem,
exposing Herod right there and then
so others wouldn’t die
so he could live?
Difficult questions,
for human comprehension,
understanding the mind of God
and the right, by His will.
Disease and pain, war and famine
storm and trials, all a part of life,
all beyond our understanding,
as is this story,
when you look at it that way
It is a story best in context,
of the journey, the documenting
of the life of Christ,
his ministry, to explain
the allowing of the massacre
All in God’s time

January 10, 2008
Matthew 2:13-23
based on sermon,
“Homecoming”, by
the Reverend Lori Eldredge,
Wesley United Methodist Church,
Concord, NH, 12/30/07
and Exodus 1:8-22
and the discussion in Middle High
Sunday School that morning
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