As we reflect on this day 17 years ago, we are reminded that in an instant everything can change.
Whether the change involves an entire country, or our own personal sphere, we never know what a day can bring. Life is short.
All around us there are lonely people to love, hurting people to comfort, hungry people to feed, thirsty people to give something to drink, impoverished people to clothe, imprisoned people to visit, and lost people to tell the good news that a Savior has come.
May the remembrance of this day, the soberness of the hour of our lives, and our love for Jesus be the catalysts that seek the power of the Holy Spirit, minute by minute, to “lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. Let us look to Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and your hearts give up.” Hebrews 12:1-3 MEV
Though we will have trouble in this world, let us rejoice and have peace – Jesus Christ has overcome the world.