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Wednesday, September 12, 2007
 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. All these are the beginning of birth pains. Mat.24:6-8This is the passage that cames to mind as I watched the many documentaries of September 11 the last 2 days. To see the many lives that was taken away, broken families, the physical destruction, the tedious work of search, rescue and recovery and the change in the landscape following the attacks in New York. I can still remember clearly the day of the attacks. I was in my apartment, just coming home from a long night of looking for a runaway student. My house mate was already fast asleep by then. I was just about to close my eyes to sleep and about 30 minutes later, i was rudely awaken by my house mate and I can still remember her exacts word to me as she was banging on my door, "Jit, we've been attacked. Someone blew up the Twin Towers. Wake up. We are at WAR!!!"  The first thing that came through my mind was, "Not another Pearl Harbor, please Lord." I ran out of my room and the next 2 hours, our eyes were glued to the little dingy tv set we owned. I watched in horror the plane slamming into the tower and then the horrific picture of the mighty Twin Towers collapsing into rubble. We both stood still in horror and the next thing we heard, the sounding of the civil emergency alarm ringing all across the islands f Hawai'i. As I watched the events that took place 6 years ago on the tube, I cannot but have teary eyes, just like the first time I watched it. Even though I have been back for close to 5 years, that one day in September has been etched in my memory for the rest of my life. Having to know some people who have lost love one that day, really hits home the massive destruction. I couldn't bear to see certain portion of the documentaries, and I told my wife that it is just too painful because i know people who died in that scene. I do not think there is anything in this world that can make me feel as lousy as I did on that day as well as last night.  I have learned that we live in a very very scary time. A time of volatility. As the passage suggest, there will be wars and rumors of wars. As we looked at the landscape of the world, we see all this happening right before our eyes. We cannot stand back and say that this is has nothing to do with us. As Christians, we need to pray even harder. The evil one is robbing and taking lives away - lives that has yet to know and experience the love of God.God's plan from the beginning was for man to have eternity in their lives. Eccl.3:11 says, " He  has also set eternity in the hearts of men ..." We need to purpose eternity in everything that we do. The words that we speak, our actions, our lives, our thoughts, our ministry, our works must have eternity purposed in it. Unless we do that, then we will be missing out on our mission in this life here on earth. The world needs to see the goodness, the redemption and the love of God. They have sen enough wars and destruction, its time that we Christian rise up and show the world the love of God.
Bradah Jit @ 10:32 AM |
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