I wake up and find out that there has been another shooting. Deliberate. You see, the Christian is concerned for the sin, and prays for the sinner. Yes, homosexuality is a sin, and we should pray for repentance. But there is far more heterosexual fornication and the adultery (or divorce) industrial complex destroys lives.

We want to warn and pray. But the Muslim will just kill.

The gunman, identified as 29-year-old Omar Mateen, apparently made a 911 call before the attack identifying himself and pledging allegiance to the leader of the Islamic State, according to U.S. law enforcement officials who asked not to be identified to discuss the ongoing investigation.

Mateen also made a reference to the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon during this call, officials said. Mateen was investigated by the FBI in 2014, but what triggered the probe and its scope were not immediately clear, officials said. The probe was closed the same year.

Police had said earlier Sunday that 20 people were killed before saying that the toll was significantly higher. Until Sunday, the 2007 rampage at Virginia Tech – which saw 32 people killed and 30 others injured – was the country’s worst mass shooting.

Orlando Police Chief John Mina said that the toll from this latest mass slaughter could have been even greater, saying that a SWAT team “rescued at least 30 possible victims and brought them to safety.” Police said they were not able to say if all of the people killed or injured were shot during the initial burst of gunfire at 2 a.m. or during the shootout with police three hours later.

We should indeed pray for Orlando. Been there, about two decades ago (well a bit longer than that: it was before we had kids). Liked Orlando. Disney… nah.

For the USA has let their enemies in.

And whenever the ark set out, Moses said, “Arise, O LORD, and let your enemies be scattered, and let those who hate you flee before you.” And when it rested, he said, “Return, O LORD, to the ten thousand thousands of Israel.”

(Numbers 10:35-36 ESV)

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I mention you always in my prayers, asking that somehow by God's will I may now at last succeed in coming to you. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to strengthen you—that is, that we may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith, both yours and mine. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, that I have often intended to come to you (but thus far have been prevented), in order that I may reap some harvest among you as well as among the rest of the Gentiles. I am under obligation both to Greeks and to barbarians, both to the wise and to the foolish. So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome.

(Romans 1:8-15 ESV)

What should we do at this time? Well, we should not do what we are not called to do. There are plenty of believers in Orlando. The Gospel is preached. They have rules which limit them: the US Federal Government is as friendly as Emperor Claudius, but the gospel is preached.

Let us pray that the gospel is preached.

To the families of the poor bastards killed today, what can we say but that their sons and daughters (mainly sons) are dead and you will grieve for them. Pray that they found salvation. Do not let their lives bring more people into the pit, and do not allow their death to be used as a weapon against those who would protect your nation.

For the rest of us, let us tell truth.

The Islamist will kill those who sin.

The Christian will pray for them, pleading that they choose the cross and salvation, through their trial, through the time in jail, and even to the gallows.

They are not the same. And by the consequences of their actions you can choose them.