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Thinking About 9/11 And Our Past

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  • Thinking About 9/11 And Our Past

    Never forget.

    The link can be found here.

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    What can we learn from this day? Let's plunge into the Deeper Waters and find out.

    As I start to write this blog, it's about 8:42 in the morning EST. I think it was around this time that Professor Wheeler came to us as we were sitting in the gym area of our Bible College where morning worship took place as this place could seat the whole student body. Before the sermon, he said to pray for the people of New York. A plane had just hit one of the World Trade Center towers.*

    There was no panic or anything. I doubt people were thinking we were under attack. I sure wasn't. I don't even remember a*discussion about it going on around me so we went and had our worship service. After that, the announcement came that the second tower had been hit by a plane. Now it was no longer an accident of some kind. This was an attack.

    9/11 is a day where we always look to the past. Lately, this has been quite a contentious topic in America. We have scores of people who want to take down statues of our past and change street names related to our past. I haven't said much about it, but I do not support such an action.

    You see, 9/11 taught us something. It did show us a way that we were vulnerable and now we have improved on that to make sure it doesn't happen again. Having suffering come into your life for a reason can be a tragedy. Not learning from it so that you repeat the mistake is even worse. If you do not learn from your mistakes, why should you not expect to repeat them?

    We can't erase 9/11. We can't rewind the tape and undo it. Many of us have things from our recent history that we would love to go back and get to do them over again. It's useless to*wish for. You don't have that ability. The best you can do is look at the event and see what you can learn from it.

    It's also useless for us to stay in the past and beat ourselves up over it. It happened. It would have been nice if it hadn't, but it did happen. If it was for some sin we did, we repent and move on and agree to do better. No further punishment is needed for Jesus took it on for us. If it is for something that happened to us, we learn how to better prepare ourselves for next time. The past can be a great teacher for us.

    So now we get to the craze today of removing statues. It would be nice if we could go back in time and remove the failures of our past from us, but we can't. Slavery happened and there's no changing that. No one today though is responsible for what happened in the past. The more we try to punish people today for what happened, the more we make ourselves live in the past and hold people responsible for what they did not do.

    Our past can be ugly, but it cannot be erased. We can live like it didn't happen, but it did. If we act like it didn't happen, we are more prone to make the same mistakes. To hold up the statues is not to celebrate the past, but to acknowledge it. none of us should want to celebrate what happened.

    When we remember 9/11, we don't celebrate what happened. We remember it. Where we are the ones guilty of a sin, we have grace for ourselves and repent and move on and celebrate the grace of God. Where we have been wronged and put in danger, we learn from the past and say we won't repeat it again.*

    Today, we'll be thinking about 9/11. Part of our yearly ritual on this day is to watch the World Trade Center movie. We also ask that you thank God for the people you know in your life who are first responders. If you're reading this and you're a first responder, thank you for your service.

    And if you're reading this and you lost someone in 9/11, my sympathies go out to you. Nothing can ever really change this day. We can only say what was said long ago, that we will rebuild and live on. Never forget the past, but don't let it be a place of permanent residency. This goes for all of us. May we all have grace and live our lives today. We don't dare act like it didn't happen. It happened and it mattered and the lives of those who died will never be deaths in vain.

    In Christ,
    Nick Peters

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