Monday Meditation: Who Shall Ever Separate Us From Christ's Love?

"Who shall ever separate us from Christ's love? Shall suffering and
 affliction and tribulation? Or calamity and distress? Or persecution or
 hunger or destitution or peril or sword? Even as it is written, For Thy
sake we are put to death all the day long; we are regarded and counted
as sheep for the slaughter.  Yet, amid all these things we are more than
 conquerors and gain a surpassing victory through Him Who loved us.
(Romans 8:35-37)

Ugandan Children

Photograph courtesy/Lifeline Children's Services

Please pray for our Christian brothers and sisters in Uganda and for
the victims of what is being called the worst terror attack in that nation
since 2010.   According to news reports, militants linked to Islamic
State terrorists carried out a massacre at a Christian boarding school in
 Mpondwe, close to the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

A witness told the BBC that the children were singing gospel songs
at bedtime when the militants attacked, shouting "Allahu Akbar!"
("God is greater") as they hacked at their victims with machetes.
Others were burned alive in their dorms.  

In all, 37 students were killed along with a school guard.
Eight others were severely wounded in the attack.

It is believed that some of the students were kidnapped 
by the terror group, who are said to be members of
the Allied Democratic Forces, an insurgency group
pledged to overturn the government of Uganda and
who are linked with Islamic State terrorists.