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I have three adult children and if it had to be one of them caught in the current spot match-fixing scandal, how would I like to respond to the situation, and more important, how would the Almighty One want me to respond to the situation?
HOW WOULD I WANT TO RESPOND?
I would cry myself hoarse before and away from the cameras saying, “My child is innocent; he or she is being framed!” I would go on saying this, long after guilt is proved and established.
HOW WOULD GOD WANT ME TO RESPOND?
To authorities: That is another matter altogether; and since I believe I have been created to please Him through my life and actions, I would follow His course. I would tell the authorities: “I am sorry this has happened to my child; but my prayer is that you will conduct a fair and impartial enquiry.”
To my child: I would send this message: “Son/daughter, f irst of all, I love you, no matter what. I am praying that the authorities will conduct an impartial enquiry. Should the truth emerge that you have done this, I will be sad, but more than that, I want you to know that I will be with you to see it through; you will not be on your own; we will get through ait together, my precious one.”
HARD LESSONS
When we cover up for our children’s crimes, we deprive them of the opportunity to learn how to face the consequences of their serious actions; we also fail society and above all we sin gravely against God. When a powerful politician’s brother-inlaw killed an innocent person in Bangalore at point blank range, the politician moved the powers that were and got the criminal out scot free. A few years later, when this same powerful man’s nephew cut his grandmother into pieces in Hyderabad and confessed to his crime, the man moved not heaven but earth and got his son out of the Hyderabad jail and overnight shipped him to US.
As I sit watching ‘IN COLD BLOOD’, the fascinating new series brought out by National Geographic every night, I dread the day one of the episodes will feature a terrible crime committed by either of the two ‘freed’ criminals mentioned above.
To think about:
Lord, only You can give us the courage to do what is right in these difficult situations, for You know we are frail, weak and made of dust. Please be with the families currently in the limelight.
