Here are nine questions for you 13 days before 9-11:
• Where was God during the 9-11 terror attacks?
• Where was He when thousands of innocents were dying?
• How could He allow this to happen to His children?
Here are three more questions for you:
• Was this a classic struggle between good and evil?
• Between man and man or our God and theirs?
• Between forces of hate and forces of love?
• Was this a classic struggle between good and evil?
• Between man and man or our God and theirs?
• Between forces of hate and forces of love?
Three final questions for you:
• Was God in the hearts of the first responders?
• Was God with the brave people on United 93?
• Were they carrying out his plan to save others?
• Was God in the hearts of the first responders?
• Was God with the brave people on United 93?
• Were they carrying out his plan to save others?
Your answers and mine may be different.
What’s important is that we think about them.
That we open our hearts and minds to the answers.
That we draw what lessons we can from them.
Because answers will come to us in the coming days.
What’s important is that we think about them.
That we open our hearts and minds to the answers.
That we draw what lessons we can from them.
Because answers will come to us in the coming days.
I invite you to share your thoughts on 9-11’s lessons.
We will publish them in our 9-11 commemorative.
Email them to JerryBellune@yahoo.com
Keep the dialogue going. It’s how we learn.
We will publish them in our 9-11 commemorative.
Email them to JerryBellune@yahoo.com
Keep the dialogue going. It’s how we learn.
1 comment:
9/11 was a very profound and very sad day. 9/11 represents the best of us and the worst of us.
Before we ask where was God, we should ask, where were we, or more salient, where ARE we?
The trouble with sin is it doesn't just harm those who commit it but it splashes all over the innocent as well--like burning jet fuel.
Before we ask why, we should remember: Self-righteousness is the opposite of Humility. Love is the opposite of Pride and Independence is the opposite of Faith.
If we as individuals could learn to see others the way God sees us, if we had more faith in Him and relied less on ourselves, if we could rely on grace and less on the law, there would be little need for such horror.
As long as man thinks he can earn God's favor, there will ALWAYS be strife and bloodshed.
As long as we esteem others as valuable as we ourselves are valued, there will be no need for strife or bloodshed.
Remember:
While we were still in sin God loved us.
While we still sin, God loves us.
When we try to love God and fail, God still loves us.
When we rebel against God, God still loves us.
When we try to usurp His throne, God still loves us.
When we stand on our own righteousness and claim to be free from the bondage of faith and the dependence on Him, He lets us feel the full weight of those decisions for a little while. And yet, He still loves us.
The challenge is to live like you're forgiven and forgive like you are loved.
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