Auschwitz, Medal of Honor Winners and Judgment

Facebook has something called an algorithm that figures out what you like to look at on Facebook and then sends you more of the same sort of thing to view.

Lately I’ve been getting a lot about people being killed at Auschwitz and Medal of Honor winners.

When I see those pictures of Jews with their heads shorn, wearing prison garb with the dates they were admitted and the date they were killed I feel compelled to read their stories and so I see more and more of them.

The one that got to me the most though was a young jewish girl about 8 years old with a frightened look on her face and a black eye. My guess is she was terrified and maybe crying and the German guard walloped her in the eye to shut her up. Then they injected her heart with a chemical and watched her die… probably an agonal death.

I’m sorry but for me there is a line you don’t cross and brutalizing and torturing a kid to death is that line.

Several of the Medal of Honor winners were awarded that great honor posthumously… they threw themselves on a grenade to save their fellow soldiers. The ultimate sacrifice of love. Several of the survivors made similar comments… because of this man’s sacrifice I got to go home to my wife and children.

On that great judgement day if my Lord and Savior asks Peter to slide over and to let me sit next to him and maybe he asks me for a little help on sorting all these people out.

And if that young 8 year old jewish girl comes forward and Jesus says… Rob what do you think? She was never baptized and never believed in me what should we do with her? I know exactly what I would say. Lord she was so young and innocent and she suffered greatly can’t we let her in?

Then if the German guard steps forward and Jesus tells me that a week before he died he professed belief what should we do? I’m afraid I would say (in my weakness) he tortured many… send him to the hottest part of Hell and let him burn their eternally because he crossed a line that he shouldn’t have crossed (maybe not yours but definitely mine).

And if one of those Medal of Honor winners comes forward and I was asked the same sort question I think I would say… he may have a lot of faults but the very last thing he did was he gave himself up so others could live.

Anyway I woke up the other night and all I could see in my mind was that picture of a young frightened jewish girl with a black eye and I just can’t get her out of my mind.

I would like to hold her on my lap on the judgment day and wipe away her tears and tell her that I loved her and she didn’t have to be afraid of anything any more.

Thanks Facebook for helping me to see the best parts of humanity and the worst parts. And thank you Jesus Christ for your great love and mercy.