Evidently Officer Ramos was a believer in Christ. World Magazine has a great story (click here) about his funeral and the church where he and his family worshiped for the last
14 years. Ramos, who just turned 40, was
due to graduate from the NYPD’s chaplain training program the day after he was
killed. He left behind a wife and two sons.
The senseless murder of a young, godly man reminds us that evil is real
and that our world is in its grip. It lives within each of us sinners, and
flares like a malarial fever in some, erupting in rage and violence.
We might be tempted to conclude that this dark world is irredeemably out
of control, and that the enemy of our soul won yet another ugly victory in
cutting short the life of a man like Rafael Ramos.
