Meyer Minute for September 11 This is the Minute I wrote after the 9-11 attacks. Today, after President Obama’s speech, many thoughts from 13 years ago still seem appropriate. “I dont know what the situation will be as you read this. As I compose my thoughts the news reports are still breaking from across the East Coast of the United States. One thing echoes in my mind, ‘The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.’ (Genesis 6:5). “As citizens of the United States, most of us calling ourselves Christians, we dare not be naive about the world in which we live or the role our trust in God requires us to take. When a congressman asked me how to reconcile Christian love with his service in the House Anti-Terrorism Committee, I answered that it is also sacrificial love when our government and military personnel put themselves into danger and even combat to protect us. God has given the government the right to use force to protect its citizens (Romans 13). The memory of that conversation is strongly in my mind today. “As individuals we dare not be naive, either. There are evil forces that want to attack the goodness of God in your life, to make you doubt, to shake you from your place of stability and peace. Peter, (the one Jesus called ‘Rocky’ but whose own behavior was anything but steady), reminds us, ‘Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.’ Therefore, always, but especially today, God help us in our personal individual lives to stand firmly in His love and to not be tossed to-and-fro by the uncertainty of these early moments of terror. And, then, let us pray for wisdom as Christian citizens, that we might ‘Resist him (the devil), firm in your faith’ (1 Peter 5:8-9).”
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:00:02 +0000
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