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scott peterson was sentenced to death. and america watched from their living rooms...listened from their radios...read from their newspapers and magazines and internet chatrooms....and people cheered. did you get that? people cheered. people. human beings celebrated the fact that another human will die. true...he did apparently kill his wife and unborn child and that is a heinous crime. but 1) who are we to judge and 2) we should let justice be served within the judicial system as it has to be here on earth and let God do His deal in Heaven. why do we feel the need to cast judgment and condemnation on the man from our living rooms and water coolers at work? by doing that...we're no better than he is. a sin is a sin....be it premeditated double murder of a beautiful woman that you supposedly love and your unborn child....or casting judgments on your neighbors with hatred in your heart. God calls us to love everyone...He doesn't say...love everyone that is good in your eyes. He says love everyone. period. that means even the murders, rapists, child molesters, and thieves. and as difficult as that is to swallow...we have to do that...because He does that and our ultimate goal is to become like Him. in 1 peter 4:8, He says..."above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins." that's one of my very favorite verses because it reminds me of how He sacrificed for us because of His love and how His love ultimately is what covered our sins...and we should live with a loving spirit and heart like Him so that our lives will follow that verse as well. because i truly believe that love can cover over any wrong. why? because GOD SAID SO. so as hard as it is to do sometimes, we have to love people that we sometimes find less than desirable. pray for them. pray that they will see God's love in us. and that they will be changed by it. that is the ultimate goal. i believe that if celebration over a death sentence takes the place of love for our neighbors, God's gonna have a lot of questions one day. i'm already gonna have a lot of things to answer for...i'd like to leave that one off the list.