Remembering 9/11

This morning Barack Obama quoted Psalm 46 verbatim. No interpretation, no opinion, just the words of the Bible:

1 God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way
and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,
3 though its waters roar and foam
and the mountains quake with their surging.

4 There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
the holy place where the Most High dwells.
5 God is within her, she will not fall;
God will help her at break of day.
6 Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall;
he lifts his voice, the earth melts.

7 The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.

8 Come and see what the LORD has done,
the desolations he has brought on the earth.
9 He makes wars cease
to the ends of the earth.
He breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields[d] with fire.
10 He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”

Thank you Mr. President for bringing pure hope and comfort today. We will never forget 9/11 and what it means. When our nation is blessed we will be hated by evil people. Just as Israel was blessed by God, so has America been. Just as the evil have hated Israel so have they hated America. Yet we continue to be blessed.

As verse 2 above mentions, those evil people have tried to make us fear, but we will not fear. We also should not allow this to make us evil, or lead us to become self-absorbed. As the Canadian journalist Gordon Sinclair proclaimed nearly 40 years ago (speaking of events beginning even 60 years prior) may we continue to be “the most generous and possibly the least-appreciated people in all the earth.”
(http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm)

God Bless America!