Last Friday, the man most infamously connected with assisted suicide, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, died in Michigan at the age of 84. He had served 8 years in jail (out of a 10-25 sentence) for second degree murder, but is responsible for the deaths of 130 people. What was interesting to me about the story is that his lawyer said his death “was peaceful, he didn’t feel a thing." Whether this is true, I think a lot of Christians have trouble believing that “Dr. Death” could have died peacefully because he was doing so much evil. Well, one of the most insidious effects of sin is precisely its capacity to blind us to its presence in our lives, and so the reality is that many people who engage in sin lose the ability to see that it is in fact sinful. This loss of guilt may seem like a blessing, but as we talked about on the show last night, it’s actually the loss of the last vestige of God’s grace, the internal sense that something is wrong and in need of restoration with your life which might draw us back to God in repentance.
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