9/11 How Secure Can You Really Be?

It's been five years. We've spent billions, inconvenienced hundreds of thousands, and sent thousands of others to their deaths. Yet school kids present with President Bush when he found out about the 9/11 attacks say they don't feel safer five years later. Do you?

Some say we have avoided attacks and are safer. Some say it is a losing battle and that terrorists will continue to probe until they find a weakness they can exploit. It is only a matter of time, they say, before terror comes once again to our shores.

I'm not saying we stop trying or that we stop the war. I think that this anniversary of 9/11 and our feeling of continual insecurity should remind us of another war and a feeling of safety we have that we shouldn't. First, Jesus Christ told us not to fear terrorists and their ilk:

Luke 12:4-7 "I tell you, my friends, do not fear those who kill the body, and after that have nothing more that they can do."

No, don't fear physical death. Instead we have a much greater peril facing us: spiritual death.

"5 But I will warn you whom to fear: fear him who, after he has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him!"

Why do we feel anxious about a terror attack when the evil resident within all of us threatens to destroy us forever? Why would God do such a thing you ask? It's not God's fault. He is pure and anything that tries to exist in His presence that is not pure will be destroyed. Yet someone so powerful is also powerfully loving.

"6 Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. 7 Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows." ESV

Jesus made the way for eternal security with God. He did it by facing the ultimate terrorist head on and coming out victorious over him, and his servant: death.

We may feel a little trepidation stepping on an airplane this September 11th, but we should not fear the ultimate trip we take when we die, if we have secured a seat in the plane going to God's kingdom - a ticket purchased for us by the death of Jesus Christ.

Pastor Tom