Natural Affection. This is something that an individual is practically born with. It is the natural feeling that an individual has toward another. Affection meaning care, love and even liking, warmth, or friendliness. Where has it all gone and why?

True, the majority of people on the globe still have what is known as natural affection, and thank God, but for those who lose it somehow, such as the young 25 year old man in Tokyo, Japan who on 6.8.08 went on a murderous stabbing spree killing people at random that he didn't even know. Once captured by police, the killer stated that he just wanted to kill strangers that day, that he was tired of life and sick of everything. These things are the reasons he decided to kill innocent people. No concrete motive. He just felt like it. The young man was had a loss of natural affection. He stabbed 17 people, and at least seven died on the streets of Akihabara district. Another such stabbing happened on the same exact date in 2001.



More and more senseless acts of violence take place on an increasingly random basis as time goes by. It seems as though time and our past hasn't even started to teach us the real deal about life. On the contrary, maybe we have been taught but aren't learning as well as we should. Could it even be prophecy that was once told of in the Bible of a time when natural affection will be lost in many? For instance, in 2 Timothy 3rd chapter of the King James Bible it is written:

1This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Such things are taking place at an alarming rate, and for what reason? Loss of natural affection is one on the list of things that would take place in times of late. Will things get better? According to prophecy, things are on this path due to last days drawing near.

Is this natural affection loss a warning to correct our lives and our spiritual walk? Prophecy doesn't tend to lie, but come true. In conclusion, without love, there is nothing, and remember bad days come and go along with bad and sad seasons. No one is exempt, however, once that season or day is over, the climate, temperature, mood, is bound to change. Mentally, an individual must begin to rely on the knowledge that things get better in time and they are never the only one going through something. Wait on that good day, and don't take it out on the innocent. Words are easier said than done, however, it all starts with words that you say to yourself by thinking on good things.

May God give the families of the wounded and deceased strength in their times of grief.