Today we went to Krakow Poland and also had the opportunity to go visit Auschwitz (the Nazi concentration camp). This was a very interesting experience. Like many people I know about the holocaust and what happened, but I have never seen it like this. As I went through the tour and walked on the ground and in the barracks of people who were tortured and died for no reason, I am reminded of the depravity of men. We can so often think of events like this and say, the people that could do something like this must be so evil. I am reminded of the words of Moses in Genesis 6:5, "The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time." I am reminded of the fact that we are all evil all the time. This led me to the thought of Christ and his sacrifice! It is so amazing that though we are a evil group as humans, a group that can cause such atrocities as the Holocaust, that God could still forgive us through Christ. To think that this Grace is so complete that it could even cover a Nazi, who repented and confessed Christ as Lord! Praise be to our God that He is so merciful and gracious to us, a broken and evil people!
