September 11th 

   I will never forget sitting in my living room and watching as an airplane piloted by those who hate America flew into the twin towers in New York.  If there was ever a doubt in anyone’s mind that evil existed, that act and those that accompanied it should have removed that doubt forever.

   While the attacks of 9/11 were purely evil, they were only one in the long list of terrible evils that have occurred throughout history.  Think of the massacre of the innocents when Herod had all the boys in Bethlehem who were under two years old slaughtered in his attempt to kill the Christ child.

   The early Christians were persecuted, brutally tortured and killed by various Roman emperors, some fed to the lions in packed public arenas.  Nero had many Christians drenched in oil, hung on lamp posts and set afire to light the streets of Rome.  Hitler had the holocaust; Rwanda and others had their genocides.  The genocide of unborn babies in the womb continues through abortion.  The list could go on for pages.

   Evil continues in the world, but only for a while.  At some point, maybe tomorrow, maybe a thousand years from now, this world and all the evil within it will disappear in a flash.  The Lord will come in glory and make all things new.