DJ Says...

A reader emailed to ask the question that is most often asked in such a tragedy as the merciless death of a child: why? Why would a good and just God allow something like this to happen? And why did I show pictures for the man that killed the baby, presenting him as the face of evil, when in fact he looks like an ordinary guy?

As to the first, I cannot answer that to anyone's satisfaction that doesn't believe in the God that I do. Because, apart from that belief, I too would ask that question. But with that belief, I can, even if but for a moment, take refuge in the belief that the Creator of all things has a divine plan for His universe.

What was the plan for Alijah? That is a more difficult question for me because I cannot, in my limited human reasoning, create in my mind a circumstance wherein his death, in this most violent of ways, makes sense. I must ask for enough faith to continue to believe that my Creator does indeed have a way to use his death for His glory.

Romans 4:11 “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, since you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created!”

And I do believe that Alijah was created by God for a purpose. Did Travis Mullis choose God's perfect will for his own life? No, I do not think that he did. And in so doing, I believe that he subverted God's perfect plan for Alijah. Travis will have to deal with that. Alijah is in the loving arms of Christ.

As for the second question, why show Travis Mullis's picture? Clearly, he doesn't look evil and yet that was the title of my post.

And that was my point. Evil has no specific face, shape or form. Evil is in our hearts and will rise up at the slightest opening.

Did that which is good, then, become death to me? Absolutely not! But sin, so that it would be shown to be sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that through the commandment sin would become utterly sinful. For we know that the law is spiritual – but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin. For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate. But if I do what I don’t want, I agree that the law is good. But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me. For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For I want to do the good, but I cannot do it. For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want! Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.

So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God in my inner being. But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

And there is only one answer to the question that Paul poses at the end of that passage:

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.

Was Travis Mullis completely evil? No, I don't think so. Listen to him as he speaks. 

TJ's Interests

General    Music, Football, Hockey, TV, Computers, Internet, Etc.

Music       Rap of any kind, ANYTHING SCREWED &; CHOPPED, and a lil of everything else im pretty open to any music except country lol!!!! Oh Dont Forget The Houston Underground Scene...Big Ups to LitaRodi the First rapper ive offered promotion to despite having never heard of him till that day!

Movies     Horror,Action, Hustle &; Flow was great!!!

Television CSI, House, Greys Anatomy, Law And Order SVU and CI, Simpson, Family Guy!

Books      Nothin Much just them school books. Stay In School Don't Quit

Heroes     God for Keeping Me Alive After All ive Been Through

Sounds like any number of young men I know. Could be your neighbor. And then there is this:

DJ's Passions:

Street Racing, Sex, My Wife, My Son

My son. He was proud of his son, creating a "Battle " for "cutest baby". Which Alijah won. The picture he used of Alijah is titled "Alijah's first trip to the park" and is the typical picture that a proud father would show off.

And yet, he killed his son, violently crushing the baby's skull. Evil comes in all shapes, forms and faces.

Alijah's mother was charged yesterday with endangering a child in connection with his death. 

The arrest affidavit for Kohberger, the child’ mother, charges that she endangered the child on the morning of Jan. 29 by allowing Travis Mullis to take Alijah from the family’s home while knowing Mullis was a threat to the boy’s safety.

The baby's father was “freaking out,” she said, because he “was having flashbacks from being sexually abused as a child.” Kohberger said he told her he had to get out of there because “he might do something to one of the kids.”

There were warning signs, but no one acted.

The endangerment charge against the Kohberger did not come as a total surprise to the people she was living with.

“She's done it before, to tell him to take the baby. But he would always would return,” said Michelle, who asked that 11 News not use her last name.

Will you? 

Her parents never took the young girl to church

Never spoke of His name

Never read her His word

Two non-believers walking lost in this world

Took their baby with them

What a sad little girl

Her daddy drank all day and mommy did drugs

Never wanted to play

Or give kisses and hugs

She'd watch the TV and sit there on the couch

While her mom fell asleep

And her daddy went out

And the drinking and the fighting

just got worse every night

Behind their couch she'd be hiding

Oh what a sad little life

 

And like it always does, the bad just got worse

With every slap and every curse

Until her daddy in a drunk rage one night

Used a gun on her mom and then took his life

And some people from the city took the girl far away

To a new mom and dad

And kisses and hugs everyday

 

Her first day of Sunday school the teacher walked in

And a small little girl

Stared a picture of Him

She said I know that man up there on that cross

I don't know His name

But I know He got off

He was there in my old house

and held me close to His side

As I hid there behind our couch

The night that my parents died.