Pensees: We need more men like this woman.

We need more men like this woman.

Whatever you may think of this woman’s politics and motives, I think we could use a few more men as manly as she was. She had to know that sooner or later the assassins would succeed. Unlike American politicians who carefully analyze the polls and shape their answers and views accordingly, polls would have revealed to this woman that a significant percentage wanted her dead.

You don’t reason with that. You just stick with your convictions.

I don’t think Bhutto was grandstanding when she said, “I am what the terrorist fear most.” Terrorists fear those that aren’t afraid to die. To be terrorized is a choice. Bhutto chose not to be terrorized. They killed her. But they did not terrorize her.

We need missionaries who cannot be terrorized. We need pastors who cannot be intimidated by death. We need Christians who do not fear those who can harm and kill the body, who live by their own ideals - their God-given ideals - and on their own schedule; who, like Paul, say, “I won’t be thrown out of Lystra by those who stoned me. I’ll walk out.”

We may not agree with the Bhutto ethic, style, and politics. But it wouldn’t hurt to have some leaders like her in our country as well: leaders who live by their ideal and are not intimidated by the opposing idealists. While idealists in the USA may not resort to suicide bombings, it is still a fact of life that you don’t reason with most idealists. You should just stick with your own ideals, ideals that are grounded in bedrock truth.

Whatever you think of the woman, today is a very sad day. Pakistan is a “trembling cup” right now.

What a magnificent time to live! What a time to die!