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9/11
The tenth year anniversary of one of our nation’s most tragic events is today. Many solemn observances will be held. Some firefighters will put on their equipment and go up several flights of steps in a tall office building to honor firefighters killed that day.
Many lessons are to be learned from that memorable event. One of the most painful is the number of innocent people killed. These people were not personal enemies of their attackers. There was nothing any of these people did directly or indirectly to the attackers for them to act with such violence.
Innocent people suffer. They suffer at the hands of those whose attitude and behavior is corrupt and abominable. The unborn suffer every day. Women of a meek and quiet spirit married to ungodly and ungrateful men suffer every day. People who work hard for a living are gunned down by a disgruntled employee they do not know. Those who are Christ Jesus “shall suffer persecution” (2 Timothy 3:12). Why? What have they done to deserve such treatment?
Why do the innocent suffer? It is because darkness hates light. It was the reason Jesus suffered and died (John 3:19-21). Those who loved the darkness will not come to the light, because the light exposes their evil works. Those who are violent, ungodly, and full of envy and strife oppose what is right, and often harm those who are doing good. Should we therefore live in fear of another 9-11 event? No! We should live in fear of God, the deliverer from enemies (Luke 1:74).
