To Celebrate or Not To Celebrate?

Do we celebrate the death of someone that was not a believer of Jesus Christ?
Someone that was not saved? Is the celebration right?
I was listening to K-Love Radio as this was the question asked.
As people posted on facebook, text messages were sent out, phones were ringing, and people were running around letting the news out that Osama Bin Laden was killed by US soldiers. We turn on the news to see every news station with the same view as the country and world waited on President Obama's statement about this event. After this news was confirmed by the President, news channels tuned into the flash mob of people gathering outside the White House celebrating, chanting, and waving flags.

Wow, so the biggest terrorist threat towards the US has now been killed and captured. Are we celebrating this victory over a dead body or one less threat? A caller on K-Love came on and voiced his opinion about the images of people celebrating in front of the White House. He said it brought him back to the day of 9/11 when news stations tuned into the celebration overseas of the destruction of the Twin Towers, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, and the other plane that was brought down in a Pennsylvania field.

The image of them waving flags and firing guns into the air in celebration of so many that died. So many deaths, approximately 2,976. So many Americans that died, some of them possibly without knowing Jesus Christ as the personal Lord and Savior.


Now flip the script. Yeah He was the leader of Al Qaeda and was responsible for the death of many men, women and children. Some may celebrate knowing that he's in Hell. But what Christian can honestly join in on the celebration of someone in Hell? God's forgiveness is available to everyone, and to watch anyone leave this world with their enternal reward as Hell should break any Christian's heart. So I'm sure not many are shedding tears of his death, but are you joining in the celebration of it?
I think the best thing is to celebrate a victory that there's one less threat to our Country and remember that if you’re a Christian, God loves everyone and so should we.