First, life
and death can come down to a matter of a millimeter. The video of President
Trump grabbing his ear and then diving onto the platform will be indelibly
etched into the nation’s historical memory. Just the slightest deviation in the
path of that ammunition round would have changed a bleeding ear into a dead
former president, even as Trump is just days from his official nomination as
the Republican candidate in the coming election. How can human life be so
fragile as that? But the fragility of life is essential to our understanding of
the gift of life. In a world of sin and evil, assassins and pathogens, every
breath we take is a gift. At some point, a single breath will be our last.
For Donald
Trump, his last breath could have come yesterday, broadcast to the entire
world. Thankfully, that was not the case. But why? Those who hold to a purely
materialistic and naturalistic worldview have no answer but luck, which is a
major doctrine of secular theology. But Donald Trump (and the watching world as
well) must surely know in his heart that something far greater than luck
preserved his life. Speaking to the press, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.,
acknowledged the hairline distance that separated life and death in the
assassination attempt: 'Fate stepped in.' Interestingly, it was President Trump
himself who clarified the issue, posting on Truth Social that it was 'God alone
who prevented the unthinkable from happening.' Indeed, it was God and God
alone, for God alone is the sovereign ruler of the cosmos."
Read the entire article by R. Albert Mohler here at World Magazine.
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