All of our hearts are heavy this week as we remember so vividly the events of 9/11/01, ten years later. All of our lives were changed forever on that fateful day. As we remember the nearly 3,000 people who died, the over 6,000 brave soldiers that have given their lives for the cause of freedom, and the thousands wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, we are again reminded that freedom is not free. Let us pray for the wounded soldiers and for the families that live with the scars of 9/11 everyday of the year.
This is a different type of war that we are fighting in 2011. Not only do our troops face an enemy on foreign soil, but we live with the threat of terrorism on our own soil… from those who are filled with hatred and disgust toward all that we love and stand for as Americans. These are are certainly days that ” try men’s souls.” Our leaders have constantly reminded us as citizens to be “vigilant,” and to be aware of our surroundings.
In I Peter 5:8, God’s Word tells us: ” Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.”
Satan is our greatest adversary, and the world’s worst terrorist! We are commanded to ” resist stedfast in the faith” the god of this world. (I Peter 5:9) As we live our lives each day in a difficult and dangerous world, let us who know the Lord Jesus Christ live our lives by faith, without fear of threats and hate.
The Apostle John wrote in I John 4:4: ” Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.”
We can be ” more than conquerors ” through Him that loved us!
” FOR GOD HATH NOT GIVEN US THE SPIRIT OF FEAR; BUT OF POWER, AND OF LOVE; AND OF A SOUND MIND.” II Timothy 1:7