Yesterday was September 11th. Twenty-three years ago the world changed forever – again. Yet, I didn’t even realize what yesterday was until a friend mentioned it in a post. Isn’t it strange that an event so life-changing for people of my generation, has become for many of us just another day, a footnote in history.
I remember how it was in the weeks and months after September 11. For many Christians it was prophecy fulfilled, a sign of the end. Others were “faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world…” (Luke 21:26 NIV).
Yet, here we are, 23 years later, and “everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.” (2 Peter 3:4). Yes, we’ve been through wars and pandemics and hurricanes, but we’re still here. It’s easy to think this is the way it will always be.
But, “you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night…” (1 Thess. 5:2). A day is coming when we shall “see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory.” Matthew 24:30.
For many these words fill them with dread, but, for those of us who have accepted Jesus as our Savior, this is good news, “For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. He died for us so that, whether we are awake or asleep, we may live together with him.” (1 Thessalonians 5:9, 10).
Time is passing, our world is waxing old, but there is good news – Jesus is coming! So, let us “live holy and godly lives as [we] look forward to the day of God…” (2 Peter 3:11, 12). And let us do all that we can to ‘speed its coming.” (v. 12). Today, share this good news with a friend or neighbor, so they too can find hope in the promise of His soon return.