When I sent my last story to my daughter for a final check, she said people would wonder why it was about the Sep 11 attacks which is “an old story” and it isn’t the anniversary of the attacks. I told her I mentioned them because my friends said “everything changed” after the attack. I agreed with my friend that many things changed but GOD doesn’t change because of world events! One thing I did agree was that “everything changed” for the people who died, and that’s not “an old story.”
Yes, it happened 23 years ago, but for the people who went into eternity time isn’t used up like it is here. I’m sure the people who passed through the narrow gate (Mat 7:14) haven’t noticed as 23 the years went by. They feel just as good as when they arrived, they aren’t anxious or lonely, they don’t get sick or tired. It’s been a constant celebration in the presence of GOD the FATHER, SON and HOLY SPIRIT and the praise and worship is beyond description.
Sadly, the people who passed through the broad gate (Mat 7:13) have endured every second in unimaginable agony. The searing pain is just as bad as when they first arrived. They’ve never had a second of relief. Adding to their physical torture is the realization that they didn’t have to go there but now they can never leave. The price had been paid but they turned it down!
The terror attacks in the US weren’t the biggest tragedy that happened on Sep 11, 2001. You must be mistaken. It made the headlines around the world. The biggest tragedy on that day were the other 150,000 people who died that day “for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Mat 7:13-14 KJV). That pattern hasn’t stopped and 1.2 billion + people have gone the same way, including today. So, you see, it’s not “an old story.”
Where’s the Good News? You can choose because of another “old story.” “God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16 KJV). That story has never lost its power!
Wayne Lance – That’s Good News to Share!