SOLOLÁ — A criminal band’s lust for quick cash cost a young man his life yesterday afternoon as crooks tried and failed to kidnap a Sololá businessman.
“Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood,” wrote King Solomon in Proverbs 1:16,18-19. “But they lie in wait for their own blood, they lurk secretly for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its owners.”Pedro Fernando Luis Par, 18, tried to come to his boss’s assistance. The 50-year-old Christian businessman was shot twice, but he survived and the kidnappers fled. Neighbors said Par was a an honorable young man, about to graduate from his technical training.
Life is not all gunfire and danger down here. Indeed, according to today’s Prensa Libre, Sololá ranks as the fourth safest in the country by a count of violent crimes this year. Most explosions here involve some celebratory Guatemalan lighting off rounds of firecrackers at any hour for any occasion. Folks are concerned about the kidnappings but not living in fear.
I mention this news, asking for prayer for Guatemala’s authorities, transforming for its institutions, and justice and peace for this land — in the spirit of the Apostle Paul’s letter Timothy (I Tim. 2:1,2).
Looking at the U.S. economic problems and sharp decline of global stock markets, I wonder how different are the causes of these problems. Whether at gunpoint or by the click of a mouse, those “greedy for gain” destroy lives.
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