BBD 09.11.08 Strong Towers
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09.11.08
Strong Towers
In Remembrance of the 9/11 attack of 2001
The devotional written 09.12.01
Personal Note concerning events of September 11, 2001 written that day: I
started watching the news this morning just in time to be shocked to see the
second plane crash into the World Trade Center. That was just the first of
many shocks this day has held so far as I watched with horror the events
that have unfolded. Once again we have been forced to take our minds off of
our little petty problems and think of the agony of life and death. We pray
for those who are still alive but trapped. We pray for those who have been
injured but struggling to survive. We pray for those whose loved ones have
been killed or injured. Let us look to our Lord during this time. Isaiah
26:3 comes to mind. "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is
stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee." - Ed Wrather 09-11-01.
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are
safe. - Proverbs 18:10.
We are still in shock and still horrified after the destruction of the
terrorist attacks upon the United States yesterday. The World Trade Center
had already withstood one terrorist attack in 1993. Who would have thought
that those towers could have so quickly been destroyed? Yesterday, I
listened to two architects who discussed the construction of the World Trade
Center towers. According to them the towers were designed to withstand the
crash of a Boeing 707. What the towers were not designed for was the crash
of a plane still loaded with most of the jet fuel. The steel had been
treated to withstand fires of paper and wood but not the thousand degree
prolonged fire of jet fuel. The buildings withstood the initial crashes well
but could not withstand the extreme heat, which caused the steel to lose
strength and collapse.
According to the architects it would be possible for a building to be built
with the steel coated in such a way that would enable it to even withstand
the jet fuel fires which caused so much destruction yesterday. However, even
if the World Trade Center Towers were to be rebuilt to be resistant to jet
fuel fires they could still be destroyed. They could be destroyed through
atomic attack or even by an earthquake. The fact is that there is not a
building that man can build that cannot be destroyed in some way. There is
no place completely safe in this world from every kind of danger or enemy.
There is only one place of ultimate safety for the human race. That place of
safety is a Strong Tower not made with human hands. That place of safety is
the Strong Tower of the Lord and the only way of entry is through Jesus
Christ (John 14:6). Let us run to the Strong Tower of our Lord.
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