Reflections on 9/11

September 11, 2001 was a day which changed the way that all Americans, and many others across the globe looked at and approached the world.  Forever, our understanding of reality was altered.  Today many have relived those horrible moments when the impossible happened, the unbelieved became a reality.  Today, everything that could be said regarding that day, most likely has been said.  Every kind of memorial service that could be recognized has likely been observed.  Today we have paused from our regular activities, we have pulled away from this moment in time and looked back 10 years.  We have shed tears, revisited the feelings of fear, doubt, insecurity, and confusion that we felt in those moments.  We have experienced again the passions of that day.  Perhaps now the raging anger that filled our hearts has transformed into a smoldering feeling of injustice and rage.  It still does not feel right, it still feels so powerfully unjust and unsettling.  Yes, these are the feelings of September 11th.  However, what will we do tomorrow?  What will we do on September the 12th?  Will we return to work as though it were September the 12, 2000?  When the television stations remove the caption "9/11 remembered" from the corners of our picture displays, what will we do then?  What are we to do with this memory?  If we have not been changed by the lessons learned from that horrible event, then we have failed to remember.  The threat that we face is real.  The inability to overcome that threat is even more real.  The solution to the threat that we face has only ever been Jesus.  On this September 11th, I remember that no matter how far along our culture may come, we are still only one isolated, Godless moment away from self-destruction.  Without the care and protection of God, the threat that we face is greater than we can bear, without God we are most pitiable.