When Evil Strikes, God Calls Us to Love and Stand Firm

Yael Eckstein  |  May 27, 2025

Writing at CBN, Yael reflects on the murder of two Israeli embassy workers, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, and says that we must both answer our call to love and stand firm against evil: 

In the face of unspeakable evil, what does God ask of us?

Yesterday, two beautiful young people, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, were gunned down outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., simply because they represented Israel and the values we hold sacred. They were planning to get engaged next week in Jerusalem. Their lives were cut short by a terrorist who told police, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”

My first instinct was rage. My second was grief. But as I’ve sat with this tragedy, I hear God calling us to two things that might seem contradictory but are actually inseparable.

He is calling us to love each other more fiercely. And He is calling us to stand against evil with unwavering resolve.

Both. Not one or the other.